Also systemic racism of a kind nearly unimaginable today, cultural barriers to many jobs for half the population, and a world economy severely unbalanced in the US's favor by a World War.
Nostalgia for the era of "Mad Men" seems bizarre to me.
I'm not nostalgic. I think that the egalitarianism and shared prosperity of that era came from certain structural features it had, which can be replicated today, rather than from peculiar, one-time historical circumstances.
Nostalgia for the era of "Mad Men" seems bizarre to me.