GoodGuyWithACat [he/him]@hexbear.net to History@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agoI'm Curioushexbear.netimagemessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squarewizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 month agoThat… doesn’t really say anything. It’s just a truckload of graphs showing that a lot of stuff around income and quality of life went to shit in 1971. It does nothing to explain the why.
minus-squareInfamousblt [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 month agoThis website explains why https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
minus-squareblame [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 month agoDoes it? Because the question seems to be why there is an inflection point specifically in 1971 and not about the nature of capitalism in general.
minus-squareInfamousblt [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 month agoI mean I was obviously being a bit silly. It explains why capitalism must do something like that but does not explain why capitalism in the US did it at explicitly that time
That… doesn’t really say anything. It’s just a truckload of graphs showing that a lot of stuff around income and quality of life went to shit in 1971.
It does nothing to explain the why.
This website explains why https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
Does it? Because the question seems to be why there is an inflection point specifically in 1971 and not about the nature of capitalism in general.
I mean I was obviously being a bit silly. It explains why capitalism must do something like that but does not explain why capitalism in the US did it at explicitly that time