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"these days"? When was there a time that the unskilled and uneducated masses were treated better?
by merpnderp 10y ago
"these days"? When was there a time that the unskilled and uneducated masses were treated better?
- FabHK 10y agoWell, there was a bit of a golden age for lower/middle classes in the West in the decades following WW II (though tainted by racism). Pikkety's seminal "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" is the famous, but somewhat dry exposition on that. Branko Milanovic's "Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization" is a relatively slender volume that gives a great overview (on this question in chapter 2). TL;DR: In "the West", 1950-1980