> The biggest reason why America's post-war economic boom was so good for America's working classes was that WWII had taught America's ruling classes just how h

> The biggest reason why America's post-war economic boom was so good for America's working classes was that WWII had taught America's ruling classes just how horrible the consequences could be […] And those lessons have been forgotten given the trajectory the US has been since the 1970s: inequality and wealth concentration is at the same levels seen in the Gilded Age. Some folks may never have learned them as there are people out there that think the FDR's New Deal policies were a bad thing and American is still "suffering" under them.