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This is why I hated the 80s, during the 80s.

posted 6 years ago by Otter (24464)
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This and movies like "Wall Street" and "Ferris Beuller's Day Off" celebrated greed, lying, backstabbing, and in the case of this movie, fucking your way up. The zeitgeist was all about ruthlessness and fucking over anyone who got in your way, or who just wasn't of any use to you.

It was a bad time to be poor, or a person who believes in decency, just like today.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Wasn't Gordon Gecko the bad guy in Wall Street?

He ends up going to jail for his crimes. Granted, it's a fantasy that a white collar Wall Street scoundrel like him would end up like that, but its a movie.

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

And that's why I hated the 80s, DURING the 80s!

[–] huwdj (4566) 5 years ago

Yep. I hated the 80s and I despair of the now - what a time to be alive.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

And how are things any different now?

[–] lemonhead1 (424) a year ago

Here's the little communist b*tching about this & that while living in a country where you don't have to stand in a line all day for a crust of bread.....don't like capitalism? Leave, and go emigrate to a country where everyone is equally starving, that way you'll feel special!