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  • In the 1970s, one income was enough to support an entire family. Then came the Arab Oil boycott.

    The Arab Oil boycott happened in 1973. Your timeline doesn’t work.

    You don’t need some complicated conspiracy theory here anyway.

    The economic conditions that allowed America’s Golden Age were a direct result of WWII. The rest of the industrialized nations were bombed out wrecks that were missing literally millions, if not tens of millions, of working age young people. So the rebuilding of the worlds industrial base was done by the one advanced economy and industrial base that was still healthy. America’s.

    The post WWII boom ended about 25 years after the war. The nations of Europe had substantially rebuilt their industrial base and equally as important their populations had recovered. They now had enough 18-24 year olds to get lots of work done and America had competition again.

    These days, the wife and kids all have jobs, so Dad is just another cog in the machine, not the great master.

    Which is pretty much how it was before WWI / WWII began. Yes men had some additional legal rights / privileges if they were wealthy and and had the correct skin color but everyone else was pretty much back to being plebs.



  • Banning TP-Link routers isn’t going to do a damn thing to solve the problem of insecure routers, SOHO or otherwise. Too many people and companies set shit up and then ignore it until it breaks and under these conditions routers are always going to become insecure given a long enough timeline.

    Fire up Shodan and see how many discontinued Cisco ASAs are out there. Hell you can probably still find some Cisco PIX boxes even though they went away nearly twenty years ago! Those aren’t people doing that, those are COMPANIES.

    The problem here isn’t the brand or even the silicon that brand uses. It’s with the utter lack of management (including EoL replacement) by the people using the damn things.