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For white people in the imperial core
Keep downvoting, sorry the truth hurts that your parents only had those privileges from raping the rest of the world
You're right but you've also framed this in the most inflammatory way possible.
The life being described by OP was very much a privilege of a vast global minority. Sure it's something everyone should have but it's not something that's ever existed for most people.
Is it something that can be had again? Absolutely. But we can dream bigger than bringing it back for just Americans/Westerners (even if the West only got there via exploitation of others).
It is inflammatory because this conservative bullshit is fucking offensive as fuck to everyone on earth who were exploited by the US and its allies to make that life possible.
No, it can't, not in the way it happened. It happened by extreme exploitative capitalism and it ended in the exact way you are living now. Those same people are the ones who had their wealth transferred up. Those same people are the people who got foreclosed in 2008. There is no alternate ending to what happened then than the world you live in. To think you can go back to the past and live a way of life that doesn't exist from an idealized past is conservative thought.
No one on earth will ever have that again, you need to dream much bigger where you aren't profiting off the backs of my family with a better world for everyone that looks nothing like the regressive 1950s fantasy your boomer parents and grandparents lived in or you get the shit you have now.
If you're saying you want a better world for everyone then we're in agreement.
I won't speak for people whose parents lived in the West in the 50s, that's not my experience. But I hope that they also want shared global prosperity and safety, which is not how I'd describe the past 75 years or more.
What are you calling the imperial core? No one uses that term in the US. I have no idea what you're talking about.
the imperial core is the primary beneficiary population in an imperium. the three main imperial cores are New York City, Moscow, and Beijing. in these places wealth stolen from the fringes are used to placate the masses. there are still people who suffer in the imperial core, but the material conditions of the populace convince the masses that some of that suffering will be resolved soon and then the comfort will be extended to all.
it's like… you know how people in the nordic countries are happier than most of the rest of the world, but then within those countries there is hardcore ignored racial bias and sami people don't have access to ALL the benefits of their society? and then when you look into how wealth moves in the nordics you find that much of their comfort comes thanks to an extractive petrochemical industry that is not sustainable? that's this concept in micro. in macro, the nordic countries are part of a three empire system that isn't immediately obvious thanks to neocolonialism hiding who's exploiting who behind multinational trillion dollar companies.
Some people are more concerned with feeling right than being understood. Also a touch of in-group-joy by using phrasing of in-group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_countries
Yep, sounds like an average USAian.