The 1950's were not all that great and they are not coming back [View all]

[Peacetrain]

The racism, sexism, xenophobia, fear of the other, that so permeated the 50's... (yes I was a kid then) that the Trump and others keeps trying to drag the United States back to.. well we can drag ourselves back to the hate pretty easily.. but the jobs and the industries that brought so many into the middle class.. they are not there and never will be again.. the world has moved on..

When you graduated high school in the 50's and even if you didn't graduate.. you could get yourself a half way decent paying job.. you might have to move to places like Chicago or Detroit.. but that work was there.

The world was recovering from the devastation of WW2 .. and 50 % of the world manufacturing was done in the United States.. 50%.. just think about that.. because the rest of the world was in rubble.. literally..

Unions boomed.. and 1 car per family was plenty and the norm.. 1 phone was all the family needed.. forget about computers, laptops etc that change every 2 years and you have to dig into the money you do not have because you need that intersection with the internet now..HUGE changes in how we have to live and conduct our lives now..

The industries are gone.. they moved overseas to cheaper human labor.. but even if you moved those industries back aka Trump.. they are automated.. you do not need those vast numbers of people on the line to get a product out.. those days are gone forever.

This is a changing time.. and how we come out on the other side of this is anyone's guess at this moment.. but the longing for those 50's type jobs.. that is not going to happen.. we would have to destroy the world again to get back to have all the industrial production in our country .. and even then.. we would not need the same number of workers.

My Dad started out in coal country.. as a coal miner.. and got to go to school on the GI bill that landed us in the Midwest.. but coal miners.. if the coal industry came back full tilt .. it is automated.. you wold not need the same number of workers.. just an example


Politicians selling that to people are selling them a lie.. they did it in the UK..

What we need are people willing to pull us into what ever the next great movement is.. Millennials and younger Xers..understand this.. the days of the 50's type jobs were just a blip in history..

3D printers are making cars and buses.. guns and furniture etc etc.. its a brave new world out there..

Its fearful, because we have never been there before.. and that is what we are dealing with now.. fear of what is ahead and the changes coming..