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It was the 1980s. Capitalism hadn't reached its end-stage yet.
The US was still blissfully ignorant of how we were profiting at the expense of many lesser developed countries (that we had a hand in keeping less developed).
Most westerners still are lol
Oh it must certainly had. Tech just hadn't caused that bullshit to infect every corner of society yet. Rome wasn't sacked in a day.
edited because of *$#& autocorrect.