Comment by mlrtime
1 month ago
And when was this utopia in your opinion? This sounds like rosy retrospection to me.
Or are you talking about a very specific industry, because the thread sounds like it is all society or "Late capitalism" which I disagree with.
I don't believe there was any utopian period in the past, but in US history, the Gilded Age had a lot in common with our current day (corruption, centralization of wealth and power, stemming from new technologies). And it was followed by the Progressive era and then the New Deal which were distinctly more populist in nature. Those were the eras of American history where the US got serious about anti-trust and unionization respectively.