It’s considerably different now. Even skipping the internet and all the things it has brought us (or maybe dragged in and left on the floor), we have a VERY different global economy, climate change is kicking in hard, China has a much MUCH bigger influence on global economy, the various African nations are WAY different, the European union is a fact, and the Soviet Union is not (though I imagine Putin is doing his best to make that come back, with him as emperor).
Then taking those headlines individually:
Inflation is up to an annual rate a bit north of 7%. That’s actually lower than when I was her age, but I’m older than the average bear. And we’ll see how long it continues. I remember getting better than 10% return on CDs as a young adult (I had to scrape to come up with the minimum, too).
Gas prices are high, and in fact that’s part of what’s driving the inflation. We, individually, can partly fix that with electric vehicles if we’re able to afford ‘em… though don’t get me started on why government entities can’t spend gas taxes on infrastructure… and how they try to wiggle around the issue of vehicles that don’t generate ANY gas tax revenue.
Crime is indeed up, but not yet to the levels that we saw 50 or so years ago. The criminal categories have changed, and violent crime is higher, particularly if you factor out criminal-on-criminal violence. A great deal of that has to do with the availability of weapons.
The “cold war” with Russia, then, was with the USSR. The war with Russia now is NOT “cold”… though, very fortunately, it IS still regional in a region that’s distant from the USA.
It’s considerably different now. Even skipping the internet and all the things it has brought us (or maybe dragged in and left on the floor), we have a VERY different global economy, climate change is kicking in hard, China has a much MUCH bigger influence on global economy, the various African nations are WAY different, the European union is a fact, and the Soviet Union is not (though I imagine Putin is doing his best to make that come back, with him as emperor).
Then taking those headlines individually:
Inflation is up to an annual rate a bit north of 7%. That’s actually lower than when I was her age, but I’m older than the average bear. And we’ll see how long it continues. I remember getting better than 10% return on CDs as a young adult (I had to scrape to come up with the minimum, too).
Gas prices are high, and in fact that’s part of what’s driving the inflation. We, individually, can partly fix that with electric vehicles if we’re able to afford ‘em… though don’t get me started on why government entities can’t spend gas taxes on infrastructure… and how they try to wiggle around the issue of vehicles that don’t generate ANY gas tax revenue.
Crime is indeed up, but not yet to the levels that we saw 50 or so years ago. The criminal categories have changed, and violent crime is higher, particularly if you factor out criminal-on-criminal violence. A great deal of that has to do with the availability of weapons.
The “cold war” with Russia, then, was with the USSR. The war with Russia now is NOT “cold”… though, very fortunately, it IS still regional in a region that’s distant from the USA.