The 40's till today
2007-01-03 16:29:11 · 8 answers · asked by STA-TOW 5 in Social Science ➔ Economics
the 50's. after wwii ended, everything was booming. lots of jobs and not so much government interference. in most families the father worked and the mother stayed at home. people were still able to afford everything that they needed and most were happy.
we weren't taxed to death so one person could earn enough to get by. much different than it is today.
2007-01-03 16:34:33 · answer #1 · answered by notmyrealname 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You are probably right with the 40's, but the 90's saw an explosion of economic growth with the internet, gas prices were $0.95 a gallon in 1996, and rock music ruled on the radio. So many things happened in the 90's people like to forget: A cultural and music revolution (Nirvana happened and gay rights were finally accepted in America), we were one of the most popular nations in the world in the 90's, ok much more popular than now, and people forget that a huge environmental movement happened in the early 90's, and by the time W was president, SUV's were the best sellers and global warming was still a myth. Us Gen X'ers tried hard, but Gen Y wasn't picking up on what we tried to set. It's a shame.
2007-01-04 00:42:13 · answer #2 · answered by NightTrainWooWoo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see that from the answers already, everyone is looking at a first world perspective. What about the communities that do not hold first world status? Have their situations changed dramatically? Has it made it worse?
What about the communities in the world that perfer a society of traditions with no money? We see them as poor and yet they are happy?
So when you ask which was the best decade, you will get a different answer from each community and country because their interaction with the world is different.
2007-01-04 01:37:46 · answer #3 · answered by michael k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The US was "popular" in the 1990s? Let's see, we had the WTC bombed in '93, two embassies bombed, barely headed off a massive multi-plane hi-jacking and destruction, and capped it off with a terrorist bombing of a Navy ship, and ended the decade with a covert team of terrorists resident in the US taking their flying lessons and going to strip bars as the clocked ticked down on their big plot.
Wow sure is nice to be popular, that really ended well. I think I like being unpopular.
2007-01-04 00:47:48 · answer #4 · answered by KevinStud99 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say socially 50's, economically 90's to present.
2007-01-04 00:38:30 · answer #5 · answered by Adam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got pretty rich in the 90s.
2007-01-04 00:31:21 · answer #6 · answered by m-t-nest 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go with Jerry and then add in Rock n' Roll !
2007-01-04 00:38:16 · answer #7 · answered by Rich 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
80's we all had $, drugs, and great music !
2007-01-04 03:14:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋