• psvrh@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    It was the 1980s. Capitalism hadn’t reached its end-stage yet.

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      11 months ago

      The US was still blissfully ignorant of how we were profiting at the expense of many lesser developed countries (that we had a hand in keeping less developed).

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        11 months ago

        was still blissfully ignorant

        Most westerners still are lol

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      11 months ago

      Oh it must certainly had. Tech just hadn’t caused that bullshit to infect every corner of society yet. Rome wasn’t sacked in a day.

      edited because of *$#& autocorrect.