Who Thinks It Was So Much Better In The 80's?

[DoinMyOwnThing40Participant 1000]

Any man who gets married or even has a serious/ live in girlfriend these days is just asking to get hurt. There is no way in hell, it’s 100% impossible, for a relationship to last these days.

In the 80s life was so simple. Things moved much slower in general. These days everything is instant. No one has any patience or any attention span. There is a hashtag out there that says #TheInternetRunsOurCountry and I think that it is completely true.

In the 80s, yeah people could and still did cheat. It’s just now a days it is 100,000,000,000 times easier to do so and for it to be hidden. Women are not only getting constant attention in real life, but online as well.

I don’t care what kind of man you are, no man can compete with a smartphone.

I would give anything to go back to 1980 to 1987. For many more reasons than what I just stated.

 

Women are parasites. Each and every last one of them.

[RennieParticipant]

I do remember life in the early 90’s, seemed daft at the time, but there was no cellphones, computers were expensive and most people didn’t have one in their house, we played outside as kids, you had to go talk to people, or call them on the landline, there was less nosy, paranoid buggers around and way less security, there was heavy industry in the town, people took their time, people were nicer and there were still positive male role models around, parents controlled their kids, you could actually expect to get a job, you could still find products built to last, your prospects of finding a decent partner were probably considerably better and so on.

[KeymasterKeymaster]

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[Anonymous 1]

Honestly? Not sure.

I was always a geek and isolated anyway. My childhood was somehow good. I was excluded by the opposite sex, but I had videogames and a few friends now and then to make me company, and I didn’t mind at the time, since I had this foolish notion of romance and that I would find the right “woman” when I got older. I grew up when 3d was just starting and that got me inspired to pursue the career I am pursuing right now. I am glad where I am right now, since I can learn what really interest me without getting into debt and at home. I like where technology is right now much better then it was on the 80’s, since on those times, although you could still go your own way, it was not as fun as it is today. In fact many of us would probably marry and be unhappy, having to drag some woman’s ass around so they can have a life at costs of our lives, just by the peer pressure alone.
And for women? Please, if you think they were better then than they are now you are fooling yourselves. They were the same, men were still an utility, and women were still the aristocracy. They were just better in maintaining all this charade since there was no social media. Their mentality was the same, it is just their reach was smaller. Would you guys really want someone that don’t care about you, only your money, to be your partner? Even if they didn’t have the means to strip you from your wealth, would you guys still want to be with them? A snake is a snake. You can take out the poison, but that doesn’t mean that it cares about you, it still cares only about themselves.So no, I don’t think we had better on the 80’s. In some aspects, I think we had worse, because we were blind under the lie that we were free.

[foolsgoldParticipant 5898]

The ladies of the 80’s were the same as now. Just more distractions. Music was better beyond infinity. Concerts were $15-20 bucks and you got two great bands. That sometimes doesn’t cover parking today. You played pick-up games of all sports. Not today. You got drunk for $5 bucks at a keg. Not today. A weeks pay covered the bills for the month. Not today. 5 nights out on the town a month didn’t kill your bank account. Not today. The average car was fairly cheap. Not today. No monthly premium payments covered by your employer. Not today. You knew your neighbors. Not today. Many more things to list. Everything was better including your privacy. Women have always been the same. We as mgtows know that. Most others unfortunately don’t. That’s my take anyway.

[GormenghastParticipant 21]

The Seventies were even better…!!

[JollyMisanthropeParticipant 3356]

Good metal, better cartoons, less PC bulls~~~. 80’s were alright. 90’s were ok for awhile. 2000 and up still has good metal but everything else sucks a big fat dick.

The Children of Doom... Doom's Children. They told my lord the way to the Mountain of Power. They told him to throw down his sword and return to the Earth... Ha! Time enough for the Earth in the grave.

[AncientwisdomParticipant 6089]

Doingmyownthing,

You made a refference about how much times changed in a different thread. I was going to ask you to elaborete. I was born in ’79, so I dont have a reference point for this.

Obviously I can imagine the difference without technology distracting us, and the availability of women being greater. Any good stories or contrasts as to how much easier it was?

Ive got to think it must be tougher on a dude who lived through a simpler time and reaped its benefits than some of us who havent.

Resident cynic.

[UltimaThuleParticipant 32]

We have access to more cheap consumer goods now than in the 1980’s. The average person is materially better off now. Our cars and houses are bigger and better. We work fewer hours to get them. No question about it. But that is not the whole story. First off, nobody missed the stuff we only have now because nobody but a handful of visionaries could even imagine it. Secondly, there is much more job insecurity now and structural unemployment is much higher nowadays.

[Anonymous 43]

The 1980 were just another decade of endless struggles for men to retain their dominance over women, GOOD F~~~ING RIDDING! Any decade a man goes MGTOW is a great decade for that particular man. F~~~ the men’s rights struggle, kick the ever loving pile of s~~~ in the garbage can! TODAY IS MY DECADE! TOMORROW IS MINE TOO! ZILTCH, ZERO, NADA, NOTHING, NONKA, NEVER, NOT, AND NO TO WOMAN! They turned a man’s world into a garbage dump! Let them wallow in the filth of their own misery, other than that, I’m a cheery guy! And easy to get along with….

[AncientwisdomParticipant 6089]

UltimaThule wrote:

We have access to more cheap consumer goods now than in the 1980’s. The average person is materially better off now. Our cars and houses are bigger and better. We work fewer hours to get them. No question about it. But that is not the whole story. First off, nobody missed the stuff we only have now because nobody but a handful of visionaries could even imagine it. Secondly, there is much more job insecurity now and structural unemployment is much higher nowadays.

I disagree with the bold, and agree with the italicized. We have MUCH less purchasing power today. Inflation has kicked our ass, especially for just basic staples of society.

I remember never worrying about spending money at a fast food joint as a teenager. Now I pay ten bones for a FAKE piece of meat, greasy fries, and a coke.

There is an index called The Big Mac Index, that is used to measure the purchasing power parities (PPP) amongst countires . But it can also be used to measure inflation, check it:

In 1986, $1 would have purchased more than half of a Big Mac. Today you would have to cut the Big Mac into three pieces and only eat one of the three pieces for $1. Consequently, each dollar we have is buying a lot less

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Adding 1% for the increased risk of holding a bond for 10 years gives you a rate of at least 3%, and that’s using official inflation estimates. However, if we base our calculation on the Big Mac Index, inflation is 9.6% and adding 1% to that for the risk of holding a bond for 10 years gets a rate of 10.6%. The current interest rate of a government bond is 2.3%, but if we were to account for inflation as seen by the rise in the price of a Big Mac, the interest rate would be 10.6%. Consequently, if 10-year government bonds were to increase from 2.3% to 10.6%, bond indices would decline by about 64%. In other words, long duration, 10-year government bonds are overvalued by about 64% mainly due to persistent intervention (manipulation) by the Federal Reserve.

http://auminabox.com/why-the-big-macs-rising-prices-are-more-alarming-than-its-fat-content/

Resident cynic.

[Mr. XParticipant 20]

I agree with AncientWisdom.  Today we have inflation in the things we need and deflation in the gadgets and crap we don’t need.  There is not sign this is going to change or improve.

As far as women go, I don’t think female nature has changed much, but technology has.  This has changed women in society so much it is difficult to quantify.  In the 80’s, if a girl wasn’t happy with the guy she was with, she could break up, but outside of her friends and social circle, clubs or bars, she was very limited in whom she could meet.

Fast forward to today.  Not happy with your boyfriend?  Sign up for an online dating service or app.  If you are a six or higher, you will literally have hundreds of guys emailing you wanting to take you out, spend money on you and buy you free crap.  Think about that for a moment.  It is literally inconceivable for us as guys to imagine that if we were to break up with a girl we could go on a website or app and have hundreds of attractive girls emailing us wanting to be with us and spend money on is.  AND YET WOMEN STILL COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW UNHAPPY THEY ARE!!!!

 

[Anonymous 9]

I was born in 84, so I was a kid throughout the 80s, but I remember the atmosphere somewhat from the movies, and overall media then.

It seemed like cocaine was really big back in the 80s, and I’m not taking lines being shared at a party, but the crack epidemic hit really hard then. I say this as I knew people who struggled with an addiction to crack.

Is it wrong to assume you had a lot of female coke heads back then willing to do whatever for a fix?

Crack hit hard in the inner cities of the United States, and along with the epidemic came a restructuring of the family unit for the worst.

It wasn’t just blacks that were impacted, but there plenty of white crack smokers in the 80s as well but the media coverage was so slanted towards the inner city/urbanized segment of the population.

I love the movies from the 80s, but this is when I started seeing films highlight the crazy female role on screen, i.e., Fatal Attraction and it continued in the 90s with The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Single White Female, Basic Instinct, etc.

Entertainment plays a huge role in directing the minds of those in society; ultimately society becomes a reflection of a loosening of attitudes as shown through programming, and different media outlets.

It seems women became much more liberated in the 80s.

 

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