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(9,446 posts)In some ways the world, along with America, has declined and in some ways they has improved. In terms of technology there can be no debate. Things are better now than they were then. In terms of medical health things have gotten better. If not for medical improvements the death toll of the Iraq War and maybe even the Afghanistan War would have approached totals close to the 58,000 killed during the Vietnam war.
However, when it come to many other things the world and America has declined. It has been argued that economic and wealth inequality is worse than it was in the 1920s. There have been reports that workers today actually make less than workers from the 50s and 60s. It has been reported that despite what some may think, the wages most regular workers are actually declining. Auto workers make less now than they did in the 1960s. There is more racial segregation now than in the 1960s. I believe it was reported that segregation is worse now than it before Brown vs. The Board of Education.