How much of a role did the economy play in the permissivesness of the 70s?

Answer 1

Not much. I believe that it was a time in which young people simply took a stand against the way the world usually did things. They were simply tired to death of the way society did things and all of the social hypocracy.

Answer 2

I think we were by better off by far in those days economicaly but there were fewer people and it had in no way any role in the permissiveness of the 70's, that was do to the time in history more associated with the Vietnam War and anti-war movement, demonstrations and the advent of draft dodging. Man had landed on the moon and the Cuban Missel Crisis scared the world and the assination of President Kennedy and the Beatles growing more bolder with longer hair than even Elvis's dancing leading to even bolder bands. The hippie movement started as the Womens Movement and birth control advances all happening similtaniously. Say you were dodging the war and you went to another town and had to meet someone who identified with the same things such as long hair, drugs , sex and music so that you were forming an underground network in which you became seeemingly more permissive but yet secure in the fact that you were also more protected by this new culture or trend toward the anti-war movement and at the same time schools were teaching that if there was a nuclear war, there would be no winner or that you would soon be drafted. This new fear prompted the feeling of inpending doom and world calamity and total anialation and destruction there-fore there would be no reason not to risk your life for fun while you still had any opportunity at all, to do so. When the cold war ended and the new idea of limited warfare reamerged with the hope and protection of the United Nations the trend that the world would not blow up right away lent toward a new direction for the world and thus somewhat more conservative again.

Answer 3

Some. The 1970s were a period of unusually slow productivity growth, meaning that experimentation in the workplace was either discouraged or hit some sort of technological dead end. So people set out to experiment in social settings...

Answer 4

Dammit! I only clicked on this question cuz I wanna know the ANSWER! Very good question. I can't wait to hear the answers you get! (oh yeah, Sorry that I can't answer) What an asshole, right!

Answer 5

None.