WHAT WENT WRONG?

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B_MC
B_MC
February 12, 2023 1:28 pm

It’s a mystery….

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Visayas Outpost
Visayas Outpost
  B_MC
February 12, 2023 10:34 pm

Heh, I just love that ‘something happened in the mid-70s’ arrow! Wonder what it could be…

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Visayas Outpost
February 12, 2023 11:09 pm

inflation. materials cost more. certain trades cost more because there is too many unskilled laborers and not enough rough plumbers and electricians. house rough plumbing cost about 80-100$ a hour, rough carpenters (not the sub contractor) cost about 22-25$ a hour to hire. residential plumbing and wiring isnt a high skilled labor like a commercial electrician (3 phase etc) as most people can wire a house with less than 6 months training. so the trades are also way out of balance.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Visayas Outpost
February 13, 2023 6:13 am

Jimmy Carter? But Biden’s “something happened here” arrow will be worse!

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  Visayas Outpost
February 13, 2023 7:03 am

Vietnam? The Draft? The not so subtle message that we’ll all toe the Party line and take what’s offered or be sent off to the killing fields finally takes hold in the American psyche?

Certainly by 1980 society had begun to change in some pretty tangible ways. In times past, no American would have tolerated that level of disparity between their labor and their compensation. Most notably, as the disparity grows, opposition to it withers to virtually nothing as we move “forward”.

Progress?

Sum Ting Wong

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Visayas Outpost
February 13, 2023 12:55 pm

Baby boomer anti-men feminazis entered the workforce in droves, driving down wages by almost doubling the size of available employees.

To this day they still blame men for all the failures they created. But then, according to Saul Alinsky, that is what socialist anti-Americans are supposed to do when destroying America from within.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
February 12, 2023 1:37 pm

If you looked at it only over the last 40 years, you might think that ever-falling mortgage rates (with some variability) pushed home prices upward. There’s some truth in that in recent decades, but mortgage rates in the early 1960’s were lower than they are now. Data is hard to find online, since most charts only go back to 1971.

Game over
Game over
February 12, 2023 1:47 pm

SOCIALISM!!

Game over
Game over
  Game over
February 12, 2023 3:40 pm

Love those down votes, it suggests we are over the target.

Ken31
Ken31
  Game over
February 12, 2023 4:55 pm

This is classic capitalism; it is like communism with a boob job.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Game over
February 12, 2023 8:54 pm

Let me explain Capitalism, Communism, and NationalSocialism for you.

The first thing I notice about Communists, is that they are useless and lazy people.
Communism rewards and therefore produces a useless and lazy population.
Communists at their core put sharing above function. They don’t care how dysfunctional their society is, as long as everyone equally shares the poverty.

The first thing I notice about Capitalists, is that they are useful but selfish people.
Capitalism rewards, and therefore produces, a useful but selfish population who will are willing to betray each other for more money.
Capitalists at their core put money above the Race. They don’t care how physically, morally, or spiritually unhealthy everyone is, as long as they make money.

Both of these forces are destroying the White Race.

Hitler envisioned Nationalsocialism as a new ideal, a useful and selfless population. One that rewards useful people with an in-group free market; on the condition that you do not gain at the social, moral, spiritual expense of others.

Boomers, Q-tards, and room temperature IQ conservatives, see the [word] Social in Nationalsocialism and assume it means marxist communism, when it couldn’t be further from reality.

Hitler hated that the jews had distorted what he considered “The folkish principle”, the idea of being ‘Pro-Social’ (as opposed to Anti-Social). To him the word Social, meant to put the tribe first and personal gain second. As opposed to Marxist Communism, which was to put the international ‘downtrodden’ first, and the Race and personal gain equal last.

Many get hung up on the word Social, but again it was Hitlers vision to reclaim the word.
Just as we are trying to reclaim Feminine from Feminism.
Nation means Race/Folk and Social means Society.

So NationalSocialism just means to build a Folkish Society. A Society of the Folk.

If your boomer family member or q-tard friend is still confused, explain it this way.
It’s more or less the same economy as what we already have, except no pokie machines, onlyfans, jewish drug companies, jewish military industrial complex, jewish banking usury, jewish media, etc.

You can make money, you just can’t make money by poisoning and enslaving people. Also known as: being jewish.

*******

My recent post on Capitalism, Communism and NationalSocialism dragged out around 100 retarded Gab capitalists into the comments section, these people are nothing but jewish bootlickers with very confused priorities.

Let me give you some more examples to explain the core difference between these principles. Call it Part 2.

Housing and Children, Home and Family, probably the cornerstone policies of a society.
-Under Communism you own nothing, and the government tells you how many times you are allowed to cum inside your wife.

-Under Capitalism you borrow money from jewish bankers, you eventually own your home but you pay the jews anywhere from 70%-170% of the value of the home over 20-30years for the privilege of being an interest slave. You can cum inside your wife as many times as you want because of jewish birth control, but your ability to have more children rests heavily on how much the jewish banker will lend you, so in short, a jew will tell you whether you are allowed to cum inside your wife or not.
-Under Hitler’s National Socialism, if you were of the Folk (meaning not a parasite feeding off the host population) you borrowed the money to buy your house interest free from the State bank. Every child you had paid off 25% of the loan, after 4 children your house was paid off.

This is the real-life difference under 3 systems of Government and how they affect your life.
I don’t believe we have to follows Hitler’s version of NatSoc policies word for word, because every Nation is going to apply the principles differently. They were quickly trying to heal a nation that was destroyed by international jewry and fix their birthrate. I don’t believe that Hitler’s National Socialism was a magical Utopia, but any person that has studied the German Economic miracle of 1933-1939 will agree it’s the closest thing anyone has ever come to a real world miracle, a real world utopia, and a real world heaven on earth.

Under Capitalism and Communism you are literally a slave to the jews. You are getting Prima-Nocta’d spiritually and often physically by scum parasites.
The entire Capitalist system is a jewish system where Wallstreet parasites control your politicians, media, and way of life.

All the clowns defending Capitalism, are defending jewish parasitism on your economy. You cannot separate Capitalism, the worship of ‘free capital,’ and the trillions of dollars vampired by the trillionaire Wallstreet usurpation.

Wallstreet is the temple to Capitalism, it is a Synagogue of Satan. It provides no benefit to the Folk, and encourages a pathetic and dishonourable “well if you can’t beat them, join them” mentality. A jewish casino and game of musical chairs, and they decide when the music starts and stops.

Capitalism is a socio-economic disease, because it is inherently tied to Liberalism – a disease of social decay.

The psychology of a Capitalist is no different to a lolbertarian, they are the same mental profile. “I don’t care what people do in the privacy of their own home or business, don’t like it, don’t buy it.” A dangerous socio-economic immaturity whereby one has no concept of the flow on effect of a poisonous or parasitical function in society.

Lastly, every Institution eventually falls into a hierarchy; The Market is an institution, The Government, The Media, The Education system, etc.
The hierarchy of a society, big or small, under natural law is that a Government of whatever form, administrates a market. If it allows a market to administer itself (without oversight), a Government will soon find itself being administered by those who control the Market.

This is exactly what has happened across the West in every single “Capitalist Liberal Democracy.”

For those saying I put forward no solution to the problem, you are very new here. Over time I have and will continue to explain in great detail how to properly order society in order to avoid the pitfalls of both Capitalism and Communism.

— Thomas Sewell / GAB @Thomas_Sewell

VOWG
VOWG
  Anonymous
February 13, 2023 6:05 am

and government tyranny always works best, right, right…

Anonymous
Anonymous
  VOWG
February 13, 2023 6:13 pm

No, we obviously need more of your liberal values.

Crawfisher
Crawfisher
February 12, 2023 2:02 pm

I’m not a union member, but union and general hourly wage workers as a percent of the workforce peaked in the mid to late 60’s. I can’t find the chart, but hourly wage growth flattened in the 1980s compared to salary workers / professional class. Salary wages grew a a greater rate than hourly wages for a number of issues including declining manufacturing base / off shoring such as textiles and fibers, technology / productivity gains, and computers and digitization. I’m sure there are more reasons.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Crawfisher
February 12, 2023 5:11 pm

Except unions are part of the problem. I’m been in two of them – not .gov ones – and they suck. You cannot pay someone more than they produce. We have never had a truly free market with no moral hazard and with organic price discovery.
https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 12, 2023 2:12 pm

Also if minimum wage kept pace with wages and benefits for government employees (teachers & police) and Wall Street Bonus structures it would be $87 bucks per hour .
Do the REAL MATH BEFORE YOU check thumbs down . Take into account the engineered economic conditions by big business and government that destroyed the middle class industrial job income and tax base and left us with minimum wage part time service jobs

Lurker
Lurker
  Anonymous
February 12, 2023 3:19 pm

And the fake jobs that actually pay anything don’t really produce anything.

B_MC
B_MC
February 12, 2023 2:31 pm

WHAT ELSE WENT WRONG?

Disinformation Inc: Meet the groups hauling in cash to secretly blacklist conservative news

Well-funded “disinformation” tracking groups are part of a stealth operation blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media, likely costing the news companies large sums in advertising dollars, a Washington Examiner investigation found…

The Global Disinformation Index, a British group with two affiliated U.S. nonprofit groups sharing similar board members, is one entity shaping the ad world behind the scenes. GDI’s CEO is Clare Melford, former senior vice president for MTV Networks, and its executive director is Daniel Rogers, a tech advisory board member for Human Rights First, a left-leaning nonprofit group that says disinformation fuels “violent extremism and public health crises.”…

GDI’s mission is to “remove the financial incentive” to create “disinformation,” and its “core output” is a secretive “dynamic exclusion list” that rates news outlets based on their alleged disinformation “risk” factor, according to its website. There are at least 2,000 websites on this exclusion list, which has “had a significant impact on the advertising revenue that has gone to those sites,” Melford said on a March 2022 podcast episode hosted by the Safety Tech Innovation Network, a British government-backed group.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/disinformation-conservative-media-censored-blacklists

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 12, 2023 2:45 pm

What went wrong? What went wrong was when the US Gov. bought their printing press!!

Game over
Game over
  Anonymous
February 12, 2023 4:03 pm

Amen Anonymous, & handed it over their illegitimate child the federal reserve.

Machinist
Machinist
February 12, 2023 2:49 pm

What happened?
1913.

JoeBob
JoeBob
  Machinist
February 12, 2023 3:35 pm

Thank you, Machinist.

I had to scroll past a bunch of clueless fools to find someone who gets it.

Private central banking

Fractional reserve lending

Debt based fiat currency

are the tools that America’s Satan loving ruling class used to destroy the economy.

Machinist
Machinist
  JoeBob
February 12, 2023 8:01 pm

Bada bing,bada boom.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  Machinist
February 12, 2023 6:29 pm

Throw in 1934 and 1983 and the final destruction of the gold standard. END THE FED.

Machinist
Machinist
  MrLiberty
February 12, 2023 7:59 pm

You forgot 1971.
Window closed.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Machinist
February 12, 2023 8:24 pm

it didn’t help that the women were pushed into the work force, diluting wages, destroying the family, and increasing the tax revenues that feed the beast.

Now, the immigrants are doing much the same thing.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 12, 2023 2:58 pm

The American dream
They call it that because you have to be asleep to believe it. George Carlin

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid
  Anonymous
February 12, 2023 4:22 pm

Now the American Nightmare because of being awake and experiencing the horror.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 12, 2023 2:59 pm

We’re nothing but slaves without chains.

GNL
GNL
February 12, 2023 3:05 pm

Not only that but what is the % of 1 income families in 1960 and 2023? It’s a lot worse than that meme shows.

Lee Harvey Griswald
Lee Harvey Griswald
  GNL
February 12, 2023 4:07 pm

There were no 30 year mortgages back then either. 20 was about max.

Ken31
Ken31
February 12, 2023 3:08 pm

What happened is usury is sinful.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 12, 2023 3:40 pm

This contributes to it: https://wtf1971.com/

WTF Happened in 1971?

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Also, abolish the Fed, and decouple from the big international central banks: IMF, BIS, and World Bank.

Lucredius
Lucredius
  Anonymous
February 12, 2023 4:46 pm

I believe 1971 was the year that DICK Nixon and his sidekick Mumbles the Clown slammed the gold window shut. That may or may not have precipitated the wild inflation of 70’s/80’s.

L.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Lucredius
February 12, 2023 5:13 pm

Yes, on August 15th, 1971. The above site and its charts show in short when wages went down, relative to rising per-worker productivity.

Jerven
Jerven
February 12, 2023 3:41 pm

‘One’ of the (never mentioned) things that caused this was … women working and the new ability to take a mortgage based on joint income (or ‘freeing’ one income to be solely mortgage paying).

The, entirely reasonable wish for women who wished to work to do so, forced those who didn’t want to work, to do so too – or face never being able to compete in the marketplace and own their homes.

The planned ‘unintended’ consequence? Going from women ‘can’ work, to women ‘must’ work (thus allowing/forcing the ‘creation’ of millions of new imaginary jobs for them to fill – notice when the massive growth of government, education , health and corporate ‘admin’ non-jobs began? Not to mention all those jobs ‘needed’ to replace the things women used to do themselves, like child-care and food-prep, etc.).

Throw in the ever growing centralization/concentration of employment and you add the pressure of increasing demand for housing, in an ever smaller area (NB. America is one of the few, if not only, developed countries where there are millions of homes left vacant because … they’re in the wrong areas, miles, often hundreds of them, away from any employment. In the 60’s employment was more dispersed, and a greater fraction of the population worked ‘locally’, so demand was spread across the country as a whole).

It’s not that house prices across the board have risen so dramatically, it’s the (entirely) predictable outcome of forcing more and more people to compete for the same (deliberately) limited stock of houses, and then giving them more money to do so, has caused a massive increase in the few places they can still find work.

I suspect the whole (backfire) of forced lockdowns and the increasing ability, and attraction of “working from home” will cause a reversal (with those within job-sectors that ‘can’ requiring/demanding local services and support, causing the dispersal of many jobs again). It’ll take time, and will be painful for those heavily invested in the current concentrations, but it’s both required and might return ‘some’ rationality to (and reduce the manipulation and graft in) the marketplace.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
February 12, 2023 3:49 pm

Overlay a graph of federal spending and I believe you will see some correlation
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lamont cranston
lamont cranston
February 12, 2023 4:01 pm

In April 1977 we bought a 1,300 sq ft house for $24.8K. 10% down, so 9% mortgage, $203/mo. w/out prop taxes.

That is $19/sq ft. Looked at an equivalent starter home in that town. Average is $200/sq ft. Was making $250/week back then. To keep pace $2,500/week today.

Who’s to blame? The Fed, period.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  lamont cranston
February 12, 2023 5:23 pm

My parents bought a late-1920s house, in need of improvement, in 1967, in a wealthy suburb of Boston, MA., for $26,500, as I recall. They did much to it and sold it for $270K about a quarter-century later, buying a nice new nearby condo and a newish vacay condo, which they improved a bit, on Cape Cod with the proceeds, with my mother now working, after having graduated college at around 50 years old.

It has sold a couple of times since: once in 2012 for about $3/4 million, and has been updated and built up even more and landscaped. It most recently sold, a couple of years ago, for $1.360.000. It is a very modest house and yard for the town.

My parents, both degreed (and deceased) professionals, working full-time with no kids, would never be able to afford it now, and they had always lived humbly and saved and invested and had old, used, maintained cars, mostly.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 12, 2023 4:46 pm

We handed control of the financial system over to soulless, hostile, amoral, rapacious, foreigners.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
February 12, 2023 6:30 pm

And we participate, too:

mark
mark
  Anonymous
February 12, 2023 9:56 pm

The FED are middle managers and will fall on their swords when the Name Stealing Blood Line owners tell them to, and the Blood Line Name Stealing owners will tell them to…when the Powers and Principlitites tell them to tell the FED to fall on their swords.

What a fucking farse of a country we are…can’t even audit the leeches that suck our blood and enslave our children with debt.

I’m the best kind of Prepper…prepared to die on my feet.

A cruel accountant
A cruel accountant
February 12, 2023 5:29 pm

Time frame was cherry-picked. In the 1800’s food cost more than 50% of a persons income. Now less than 20%

Stop cherry picking data and get a fuckin job. Plenty of jobs and affordable housing in flyover America.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  A cruel accountant
February 12, 2023 6:14 pm

Food was natural, organic food then, not belly-filler fast-food poison eaten on the run, and few people didn’t provide some or much of their own back then. Jobs and pay are diminished, too.

Wish I could witness your overdue humbling at some point, you hateful, self-righteous cunt.

A cruel accountant
A cruel accountant
  Anonymous
February 12, 2023 8:03 pm

Anonymous

I live in fly over county and eat wholesome food from my garden.

Do you?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
February 13, 2023 5:54 am

Straw man.
Compare 1800’s to 1950, too.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  A cruel accountant
February 13, 2023 7:10 am

Well, it was a damned FINE cherry! WTF could possibly be MORE relevant to me than the span of time representing my life?

Accountants aren’t cruel. They are occasionally insouciant, however.

Ken31
Ken31
February 12, 2023 5:45 pm

I wondered how so many people can afford a house over $450k, but then I realized this is possible because so few people own houses.

Boogie
Boogie
February 12, 2023 6:02 pm

We went off the gold standard and started the petrol dollar, thanks Henry. Personal credit became a thing and then the Banksters printed money too infinity and beyond, A Ponzi scheme. The party is almost over, Digital Currency with a social credit score is the future, if we live that long, a year or two

Arthur
Arthur
February 12, 2023 6:15 pm

The abuse of credit.

Scotty Gunn
Scotty Gunn
February 12, 2023 6:15 pm

Taxes on everything. Government regulations drive costs up. insurance. liability.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
February 12, 2023 6:27 pm

End the FED. Restore sound money. Eliminate the government protection of the criminal banking cartel.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  MrLiberty
February 12, 2023 8:14 pm

And shutter the $pentagon. An adequate defense at the coasts and borders, as Smedley Butler, USMC wrote. Then, rid the country of all other federal departments and programs and the IRS. There’s more, but there’s a start.

GNL
GNL
  MrLiberty
February 12, 2023 8:55 pm

Yes, stop bailing out the financial sector. They’re constantly being bailed out. Constantly.

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe
February 12, 2023 6:49 pm

LBJ having the President murdered, and then LBJ’s “Great Society” along with picking a fake fight in SE Asia.

Shit like that was the start.

mark
mark
  YourAverageJoe
February 12, 2023 9:52 pm

The US has been picking Fake Fights from the Mexican War on.

Eddy O
Eddy O
February 12, 2023 8:19 pm

I know I’m happy that I moved to Ecuador. It is kind of like the US in the 1950’s and 1960’s when I grew up,

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  Eddy O
February 13, 2023 8:26 am

That being the case, it’ll be a shit hole in no time at all. Guess you should have set your sights a little higher. Try finding a country like the US was in 1820. You might live out the remainder of your life in peace…but I doubt it.

Peace is about to be taken from the Earth.

wxtwxtr
wxtwxtr
February 12, 2023 10:02 pm

Jefferson’s fault. He said:
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered… I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.”

countryboy
countryboy
February 12, 2023 11:02 pm

Federal Reserve ,the govt and big banks

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 13, 2023 6:12 am

The fed (controlled inflation), the treasury (money printing), the Congress (excessive regulation spending), the Presidency ( a bunch of loser morons) the voters ( we elect these idiots)
Basically the government!

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
February 13, 2023 6:54 am

LOL! Just my luck! That coincides with my entering the civilian work force. Between this and that whole “broken home” thing, everything is coming into focus! That little voice warning the cards were stacked against me all my life wasn’t bullshitting!

Thank you, God, for dragging me through that shit! You could have left me where You found me, but you didn’t.

Walter
Walter
February 13, 2023 10:05 am

When we built our place around 2000 the single largest expense was paper. Paying for permissions and verifications of following rules. Government happened, specifically leftist government.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 13, 2023 12:53 pm

For starters, today’s home has 10 times more appliances and is four times as large as that 1960 home being used for comparison. I remember the first home of my aunt and uncle. Two bedroom. 800 square feet. Today’s failed snowflake generation can’t survive unless they have at least 1000 square feet per soy-based mental defect.

Face reality. America has several generations living beyond their means, starting with the loser baby boomer hippie generation and growing exponentially since then.

On top of that, the worthless snowflake generation of failures doesn’t want to work more than 4 hours per week. Little wonder they are relegated to living in mommy’s basement. And when they do show up to work, they find ways to be the least productive. Little wonder they can’t afford to buy their own place. They earn next to nothing.

Perhaps it is time to bring back slavery. Not based on race but based on mental defectiveness. Do as Elon Musk wants and install microchips in their defective brains so they end up being productive instead of worthless deadbeat losers.

Bullwinkle
Bullwinkle
February 13, 2023 5:04 pm

When I was young and between about 4 and 7 (I was born in the summer of “56) my parents had a double lot on Calvary Road Duluth.
Years later, I learned the property cost $6,000 and the mortgage was $60/month.
It was just as hard to pay the $60 as it was on a mail carriers wages of the time.
Yes, He carried mail on a route that had him walk about 15 miles/day and used his own truck to hopscotch along his route.
“Old Dutch Potato chips were between 79 and 89 cents for a 2 pound BOX (2-1 pound bags protected by a BOX)
It was a rare treat to get them.
Not a penny was wasted. Rarely did they buy a 6 pack of beer.
A mail carrier had to buy his uniform and shoes.
There was one shoe store to get his shoes. (They were conventional leather shoes and not athletic foot wear)
The rest of the Family got their shoes there as children’s shoes were cheaper.
The 13th pair was 1/2 price and Dad got that pair for work.
When you look at it, We waste a LOT of Money.
My Parents never took a Holiday or bought a new car.
Have You?
We live beyond our means
Credit cards are a trap.
The first credit cards were for gas stations. Convenient….
They let it get out of hand with 30 cent to 35 cent gas.
The bill came and it was more than the mortgage.
I do not remember how they resolved it, but the credit card was cut up.
We live far beyond our means and then complain about it.
Read “Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars” on how ALL of our Consumer decisions have been manipulated.
The Manipulation is down to a mathematical Formula.
SWQW was started just after WW2.
SWQW IS WW3 and the War is against us of the Peasant Class.