Dear Folks,

I can think of many, many things that are worse today than what we experienced in 1960, in the USA.

So, my question to you is:

What, exactly, is better today than what we had in the year 1960?

(Anything, besides YouTube and Facebook, for example.)

I fully admit that Facebook has been a definite boon to Mankind in recent years.

But, other than Facebook, then what do we have, NOW, which is better than what we had in the year 1960?

“I really want to know”….À la Holden Caulfield….

I just want to know what is so great about what we now have in 2026 that is better than what we had in the year 1960.

Thank you for your input.

Let us not dwell on the negative changes we have seen, please, during the past six decades.

Because….We just wish to accentuate the positive, here on TV.

Best regards,

Gamma

16 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks,

I can think of many, many things that are worse today than what we experienced in 1960, in the USA.

So, my question to you is:

What, exactly, is better today than what we had in the year 1960?

(Anything, besides YouTube and Facebook, for example.)

I fully admit that Facebook has been a definite boon to Mankind in recent years.

But, other than Facebook, then what do we have, NOW, which is better than what we had in the year 1960?

“I really want to know”….À la Holden Caulfield….

I just want to know what is so great about what we now have in 2026 that is better than what we had in the year 1960.

Thank you for your input.

Let us not dwell on the negative changes we have seen, please, during the past six decades.

Because….We just wish to accentuate the positive, here on TV.

Best regards,

Gamma

GG that's a "no brainer". In 1960 a husband was able to support a wife and 3 children financially. Today (unless employed in a high paying job) has to have 2 to 3 jobs to achieve the same goal.

Long live Ronald Reagan and his "Laffer Curve" and the salesmen that sold us "globalisation" and neo-capitalism.

Perhaps I should have qualified this Topic by stating:

1960 was truly a golden age for the middle class and the upper-middle class in the USA.

This cannot be overstated.

These days, however, are arguably a Gilded-Age for the super-rich in the USA, or so most of them believe.

Yet, this rarefied minority, the "super rich", in 2026, remain unaware that they are not as "well-off" as most of us were in the year 1960, in the USA.

The super rich of today, one hears, are either living in bunkers, or are building bunkers...and what kind of life is that?

Therefore, can anyone argue, logically, that almost anyone is better off today than they were in the year 1960?

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We are not talking, here, about the billions who were raised out of abject poverty in the years following 1960, in places like China.

And, this is really not the point.

In 1960, the world population was 3 billion.

At that time, both you and I lived in a better world, and better than the world, today, by almost any metric.

I am speaking here about life in the USA, and in the year 1960.

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If only the world population were 20 billion today....

Just imagine how many souls we could raise out of abject poverty....but....

Into what????

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Gamma, I think you’ve accidentally answered your own question.

You’ve asked what is better in 2026 than 1960, while posting the question on a computer, over the internet, to people you’ve never met, using a platform that didn’t exist in 1960. 😂

In 1960, if you wanted to ask this question, you’d probably have to find a typewriter, put it in an envelope, lick a stamp and wait several days for someone to disagree with you.

And if you wanted to check whether they were right, you’d have to go to the library.

Personally, I’m going to nominate antibiotics, modern surgery, air conditioning, GPS, smartphones, instant global communication, cheap international air travel, online banking, streaming, and the small matter of not having to get up and change the channel on the television.

But apart from all that… yeah, I’m struggling too. 😎