I would agree we have sacrificed some of our spiritual balance, on the altar of economic growth, but then, as Maggie said, ‘there is no such thing as society.’!?!
We have economically outperformed most of Europe for the best part of 20 years, yet our kids have a really shit time, i think those 2 facts are not entirely unconnected.
Of course, what the Americans called the ‘Depression’ in the 30’s, was an economic recession. I think a recession is defined as 3 or 4 sucessive quarters (of a year), of negative growth, roughly.
I think the last one (we had) was in the early 90’s, most of the folks on here won’t remember it.
But if you think life’s bad now, you really didn’t wanna be around for the kind of shit that went down in the 70’s and 80’s.
The ‘3 day week’, 3 million unemployed and double digit inflation. i don’t think the young uns would know what hit ’em, if it happened now! Kids 2day cant do 8 hours without Playstation/ tv… cant imagine what regular power cuts would do to them!:groucho:
There would have to be a queueing system for Beachy Head, and that bridge near Bristol (damn, i can’t remember its name).
Hay ho, its not as bad as all that, we are lucky we live now, in many ways…:love: chin up!
