This is a very on-point observation on the postwar period that I haven’t really seen anyone make, the only thing I would add is that it wasn’t always a foregone conclusion that the prosperity was capped, and perhaps it still isn’t, but it’s harder than ever to imagine 
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Disagree. It looks like analysis but scratch the plating, whoops, all ruthless social control via adjustment of expectations. Why, one might ask, was 1950s capitalism so generous? Expect an answer involving racialized colonialism - at the nadir of empire in the third world.
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Aren't you the one who's indifferent to slavery?
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plus 15 years of pent up industrial tech from the great depression, plus breton woods, plus suburbanization and highway construction, plus fording mass production/consumption, plus consolidated gains of unionization, plus regulations on finance, and on and on and on
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You claim that the Cold War economy order can be brought back and then sustained indefinitely ... because "we deserve it." That's the silliest argument I've ever heard, and a pro-capitalist one at that.
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wait are you just like making up positions you don’t like and ascribing them to me? seems like a pretty weird thing to do bro
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Merely anticipating a response. Ascribing beliefs to leftists is a category error, as should be clear from my second sentence.
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