Saw a post about this at !history@hexbear.net and was a bit confused by exactly how badly the people there were going at each others throats in the comments. Nobody seemed able to agree on what precisely happened in 1971. Suggested explanations included:

  • Neoliberalism being declared the state religion by Grand Moff Richard Nixon
  • The gold standard being abolished
  • The oil crisis
  • The Republican and Democrat parties becoming increasingly divided
  • Declining birthrates
  • Institutional Racism

If any of you could give some explanations with, like, sources that aren’t just 10 pages of graphs with arrows pointing at 1971, that would be pretty great.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
    12·
    2 days ago

    If you are going to be lazy and copy paste chat GPT, please remove the artifacts (•) of I think bullet points.

    • xylogx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I could have gotten the same information from Google. Would that still be lazy?

      • Akasazh@feddit.nl
        3·
        2 days ago

        It’s copy pasting the thing and not really reading what you posted, or seeing those artifacts and just not caring for them.

        If you copy pasted it from another site and had not fixed those it would be lazy aswell. It’s only that the two combined that made me a bit snappy.

        So let me rephrase and put it more politely. It’s great that you included your source! Please do take a pause and re-read what youre about to post/have posted in the future, it makes everybody more happy and gets your (or chatcpt’s) point across more clearly!

        • xylogx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          I read it. It was relevant. Otherwise I would not have posted it. I did not clean it up because I was on mobile and it was legible as is.

          I asked several questions and was impressed at the result. I know people do not like LLMs, but they are tools just like a search engine. I am somehow getting Butlerian Jihad vibes.