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• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People born in the 1950s grew up with a 91% top-tier income tax rate, which ultra-rich people went out of their way to avoid by spending their excess income on “business expenses”, rather than investments.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Which was better tbf

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Absolutely.

      It used to be that if you had $10,000 excess income, you could use it to buy $900 worth of stock, bonds, and other financial instruments or you could spend the entirety of that $10,000 on something you tell the IRS you plan to use for business purposes.

      Now, if you are $10,000 over the line, you can turn $6,300 into stocks, and double your money in 4-5 years. There’s no point in actually spending your money anymore; just keep rolling the excess into the means of making more.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And instead of saving their money they spent it, and the people who got their money spent it, and so on until I got pennies in my ass that are going to Jeff Bezos

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pssshhhhh, bezos money is all digital.

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  • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unless this person happened to be born outside of the USA.

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• Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “not even that old yet” ? I think most would consider 70ish old, unless you’re running for president

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  • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m voting for Jimmy Carter in 28’ and we’ll just pull weekend at Bernie’s.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A corpse would make a better leader than the guy starting up Monday.

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      White House with Jimmy

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  • tatterdemalion@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I also consider “about to die on average” to be “old”.

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• sevon@lemmy.kde.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  fastest cars

  What

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  • Laser@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It never states that they had these in their birth years. Just that they had them. Might have been in the 2020s with the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut, which is the fastest car and was built in their lifetime. And coincidentally, currently the fastest in my lifetime as well

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They think '50s hotrods were faster than later cars because later cars were “detuned to meet environmental rules”

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    • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are still buttmad that Jimmy Carter asked them to not use up gasoline like toilet paper after a day of chipotle and Taco Bell. Its oppositional defiant disorder as politics. Remember how absolutely pissed people were about seat belt laws?

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    FASTEST CARS

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    • UnhingedFridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

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  • hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To be fair that 1950s boomer is putting that pedal to the floor, seatbelts off, zero concern for anyone’s lives including their own.

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  1999ers have a decent chance of living in 3 centuries. Much more impressive

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A guy I once knew had a great great grandmom born in 1898 who accomplished just that! She must have had some killer stories!

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      She must have had some killer stories!

      The world wars did kill a lot of people.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When longevity science kicks in, they’ll make theee millenniums too.

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    • Ultraviolet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The rich ones, at least. Longevity science under capitalism will result in a quasi-immortal upper class and a mortal lower class. Another looming threat of ultra-late capitalism.

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s a lot of 50s nostalgia for a decade you spend mostly shitting yourself and barely able to put together a sentence. Reminds me of my grandparents talking about living through the blitz being born in 1945.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The meme isn’t talking about the 50s but about the youth of people orn in the 50s, so ±70s

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    • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      70’s not exactly the decade of their heyday

      The popularity of soda fountains collapsed in the 1970s

      Several factors contributed to the decline of the drive-in movie industry. Beginning in the late 1960s, drive-in attendance began to decline as the result of improvements and changes

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  • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like people from '99 saying they’re '90s kids

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• gazter@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Transcription for screen readers:

  The meme is making a broad generalisation about a large group of people all heading the same undesirable trait, that trait being making broad generalisations of large groups of people having undesirable traits.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Adding to the transcription because watering down the point does no service to anyone who can’t actually read it, it says:

    People born in the 50’s have lived in 7 decades, 2 centuries & 2 millenniums. We had the best music, fastest cars, Drive-in theaters, soda fountains & happy days. And we are not even that old yet, we’re just racist

    And yes, huge swaths of them are racist. There are also racists in their 20s (Nick Fuentes), but they are far more common in older generations, the south, rural areas, etc. These are facts.

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  • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Replacing hate with another hate. Just goes to show you, haters gonna hate

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    • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      and lovers gonna love

      i just want

      none of the above

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    • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Potaters gonna potate

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• butter@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Drive in theaters, soda fountains, and happy days still exist.

  But they’ve mostly been improved upon

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just say it, you don’t like racism

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    • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      i heard it’s racist to not like racism

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    • Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Motorsports are boring, i dont care how fast ur cars are.

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    • butter@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Here I thought I could pull the wool over your eyes.

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  • itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cars in the 60’s had bench seats that were pretty much couches. Hard to beat that.

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    • gazter@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bench seats were much closer to benches than couches.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Examples of this improvement?

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    • butter@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Drive in theaters use your car radio now instead of those little speakers. Though overall the niche was replaced with movie theaters.

      Fountain drinks are probably about the same. Though some places can do things like chilling the line. Again, the niche was largely replaced with cans and bottles. For their shortcomings, they keep fizz in much better than fountain.

      They might have us beat on happy days. I didn’t watch it.

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• doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Eh, young people are racist too. The rules always change, give it 20 years and there will be tons of stories about how racist millennials are. It won’t be about GenX. Nobody remembers we exist.

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Those of us who remember The Oregon Trail also dwell in dark corners.

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People definitely talked a LOT about Gen X when the generation was in the adolescent / young adult phase and was changing norms.

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• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My takeaway from this is that racism works

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, yeah. Systemic racism was invented by British colonizers as an excuse for abusing and exploiting people with darker skin and to this day, it’s very effective in different variants all over the world 😮‍💨

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    • MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Systemic racism has existed as long as concepts of race exist.

      Scientific racism was created in France to justify the enslavement of African Christians as normally it is illegal in canon law to enslave another Christian. The UK and other Northern European nations embraced these concepts and built upon them.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      British are a nation of inventors so it makes sense

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Indeed, it seems to be the secret to a long life.

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• ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lol

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