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Women entering the workforce during and rapidly post WW2 is the impetus for most of the social and many economic changes. Womens entrance into the workplace increased rapidly from 1948 onward. Take 1948 out 18 years and you have the mid-late 60s. The 60s is the most unique decade. Look at music and entertainment and just the culture from the early 60s to the later 60s. Never will you see a greater difference. I much prefer the late 60s as far as art, but art doesn't spring from a healthy place generally.

A lot of women had to deal with asshole husbands and horrible double standards before they had more economic freedom, but a double standard is preferrable to no standard as far as family stability and welfare of children. Many women took one for the team historically. Divorce and all the downstream issues stemming from divorce and absentee parenting creates more of a welfare state and fucked up kids with each successive generation.
Japan and their low birth rate. Young Japanese working women have near zero interest in children. Japan has a healthy and wealthy retired population.

Japan is the best example of a homogenous population. Look the same. Polite and law abiding society. That absolutely positively will change. Immigration will happen out of absolute necessity if Japan is to survive. The change will be most profound in Japan.

We have the same issues. We are less polite and disciplined as a society but we have room still on the downside.

There is pressure in Massachusetts to speed up the paperwork for immigrants so they can be hired into the workforce. An office cleaner wage in Massachusetts has doubled in 5 years. Any kind of maintenance staffing is impossible.

Say what you will about post war but sheer boomer numbers was the impetus for the greatest continuous 40-50 years of growth and prosperity this country ever saw.

Indeed simultanously the seeds for decline were sown. Absolutely no argument.

My vote is 2007 if you wanna put a year on it. Coincidentally the same year as the birth of social media and smart phones. A little gas on the economic fire.

I now give you $37t in debt and Trump v Biden. Trump is the product of the populism that resulted from the Wall Street bailout.

You will not hear any politician talk about birth rates or the debt (Most of the posters here either for that matter).

Woke nonsense and what books should be in lol public schools instead.

Tick tock