I thought it would be interesting just to see what people think. Discussion isn't necessary on this poll (unless you really want to) You can merely respond with "1959" or "2009".
In Canada, much better now.
1. Better health care
2. Better treatment of minorities
3. Less sexism
4. Tech advances
etc
In 1959 I was in Germany in the RCAF. At that time, with flying pay and overseas allowance, I was making over $600.00 per month which was pretty decent money in those days. There were other perks like tax and duty free cigarettes and booze, inexpensive gas for our cars, so we lived very well.
Generally though, we are most likely better off now. The situation in Germany was unique and not likely to be repeated.
I hear you #Juan. If there was a better decade in the 20th century than the 50s I'd like to hear which one one it was.
The 60's gave the world me so it would win a "Best Decade Award" hands down.
I'm in the middle. Now is better than in the 50s in some ways and worse in others.
Yep, 1959! There were still multi-generational Canadians who couldn't vote! Ahhh, the good-old days of common decency!!
Your opinion is fairly close to the mark, MOwich, one of the things I find the most lacking today is gratitude. Not by everyone but the majority.
Yep, 1959! There were still multi-generational Canadians who couldn't vote! Ahhh, the good-old days of common decency!!
Lacking gratitude does not mean that we were better off in 1959, JLM. In my opinion, we are much better off today compared to 50 years ago.
Indeed, they had rather strange ideas of what is and isn’t polite in those days. A man may be polite to a lady, but he would be positively rude to somebody he knew to be homosexual (if he did not beat him up in the first instance). A man may open car door for a woman, but if he is a dean of admissions, he would have no problem denying admission to a woman in a supposedly male discipline such as engineering.
A business owner may serve a white man politely, but he may tell a black man rather rudely to get lost, beat it before he picks up a baseball bat. He saw nothing wrong with that.
Now, you may call that politeness, I call that rudeness. They had rater strange sense of morality 50 years ago something I totally cannot relate to.