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0xbadcafebee • today at 8:45 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

So in other words, people who were watching cartoons 30 years ago now think that the world didn't have multiple simultaneous crises, until they now happen to be adult enough to pay attention/care.

- 1970s: multiple oil crises, war in the middle east, iranian revolution

- 1980s: latin american debt crisis, soviet-afghan war, ethiopian famine

- 1990s: collapse of USSR, yugoslavian war, bosnian genocide, ethiopian genocide, asian financial crisis

- 2000s: dot-com bubble burst, darfur genocide, african food crisis, global financial crisis (due to US housing bubble burst)


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avrionov • today at 9:30 PM

1980s had the "Intifada" which is another name for a war in the middle east.