WTF Happened In 1971?

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evilcRaftKnife

Just done a quick look and in the UK in 1982, the average wage was between 7 and 8,000 pounds and the average house price was 23,000 pounds. Roughly three times the salary. Damn I wish I was born earlier!

runji

Wasn’t this around the time we detached from the gold standard?? Hmmmm…

MachaMacMorrigan

House prices over the lasy fifty uears have been flat . . . in ounces of gold. Wages have halved in real terms. Taxes have gone up massively. It’s no wonder Gen Zs feel hopeless.

pentarh

Petrodollar happened

iconoclast63

This was the moment that money was finally and completely turned into debt. The last vestiges of the gold standard were dropped and banks started creating new money like crazy, loaning it into existence and driving up the prices of everything. This trajectory will continue unless/until we can stop fiat money and fractional reserve banking once and for all.

Dullfig

I’ll take “The dollar came off the gold standard in this year” for $500 Alex.

ToastedShortbread

I shouldn’t have invested in all those washing machines😭

xof711

69x FTW!

P.s. Housing doesn’t have a fixed supply.

No_Information_530

WE WHERE REMOVED FROM THE GOLD STANDARD BUT REMEMBER KIDS GOLD AND SILVER ARE JUST SHINY ROCKS AND HAVE NO VALUE.

rjm101

[this happened](https://youtu.be/7_Xw5tWsOQo?si=65xMgAJ5vze8a4P8). To top it off it was supposed to be ‘temporary’.

420_lui

Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard

drod3333

End of the gold standard

Hefty_Assumption7567

Milton Friedman saying that corporations had a moral responsibility to make money for their shareholders

anonym1230

boomers started taking from the future (print & borrow) to finance their sex/drugs/rock&roll culture

Enrrabador

Nixon’s decision to base the USD on oil…
Debasement of currency which devalued GBP massively, an ongoing process since the end of WW2, the USA… our saviours…

coredweller1785

It’s called neoliberalism aka Austrian economics and the work of Hayek. Hurt workers, kill unions, deregulate markets, Financialize everything, limited govt and only policy is market friendly (aka print money), lower taxes on the rich, etc.

maseurodrigo

Bretton Woods.

SunDreamShineDay

Skyrocket inflation > higher cost of goods > demands for higher wages > interest rates rose > less goods being bought > recession > high unemployment > Milk Snatcher Thatcher.

Quietabandon

Yes, very valid approach, pick two random points in time, and then attribute complex economic phenomena to a single cause.

KMan471

Detachment from gold backed dollar?

KMan471

taxation through inflation. People really need to understand how that works.

quietyoucantbe

The Powell Memorandum happened in 1971. Basically it was a call for businesses to use their money, power, resources, etc to crush democracy

Rtbrosk

its not a secret what happened………guess you just woke up

0ystercatcher

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but daily life and living standards have rose since 1971. Prices have gone up, but does it matter if I can have a foreign holiday, eat olives 365 days a year and not worry about catching polio?

Keynesian economics isn’t all bad. It’s just been over exploited.

JayW132

This handout was from our [event last night](https://x.com/bitcoinconfuk/status/1703008237136617736?s=46).

fanzakh

So Ford Cortina is still affordable?? Lol

winston_obrien

The Powell Memo

igadjeed

Not relevant to Bitcoin

Coinsworthy

Basically milk, eggs and washing machines have become a lot cheaper.

KallistiTMP

1976 was when the GOP came up with the “2 santas” strategy, and 1970 was about when they started to pursue the southern strategy as well.

skililo

Oil crisis – the first global oil supply crisis

matchoo

The advent of high fructose corn syrup. Of course.

QuickLockCrypto

The cause of Bitcoin.

ryanwongcpa

All In Washing Machine!

kjesinisisi

Funny money thievery!

downtimeredditor

Thatcher happened a little later

595358

Damn 1970… must be the junior dev who made that chart

thecahoon

I can help you out on the phone call 2023 price. It’s 0 (0x)

Automatic_Collar406

Money printer go BRRRRRRRRRRR

HavocMMA

washing machines got cheaper! sp500 rally justified

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