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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

If you were white, and it was immediately after WWII when every other major country in the world had been pulverized in WWII while the US was essentially untouched.

Even if it were possible to bring back the strong unions from the end of the great depression, and to bring back the laws from the New Deal which were in force at the end of WWII. And even if you did those things while simultaneously taking away the rights from black people so that they had the pre-civil-rights lifestyle. Even then, you couldn't get to this level of wealth for a truck driver without also having a world war that smashed every other country and left the US whole.