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bigblu89 posted...

I don't think that was the intention of the tweet though. Not in a "let's go back to 1875, where we lived to be 45, and every third kid we had died before they were 4, and women had no rights".

I think it was more to say how there was a much more sense of family and community, combined with truly being rewarded based off of how much effort you put in and not some corporate formula of what some faceless company feel you are "worth".

This is still an idealised view of the past which bears only a passing resemblance to the truth.

Dirt poor migrant agricultural workers were routinely exploited by wealthy farmers in the 1870s. What do you think their hours, pay, and conditions looked like?

The age where everyone lived in community, harmony, and were justly rewarded for their labour never existed. The appeal to traditionalism is founded on a lie.