The cutoff generation. You may find yourself squirming a bit.

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5. From my perspective, 1980.

I watched property values shoot sky high overnight. The "Reagan effect" was nuts. He started that deficit spending shit, and all the Jonesing Joneses played along, went out and bought flashy new cars on credit.
Jobs for unskilled disappeared. Students got nixed for collecting benefits prior generations relied on rather than rewarded for improving themselves. College and education budgets slashed and community colleges started falling into disrepair. Old folks relished in their new cars sporting "I'm spending my kid's inheritance" bumperstickers and they did. Didn't effect me, I didn't inherit anything worth squat because my parents medical bills exceeded their total assets.
Republicans got drunk on power and madly obsessed with profit. What was supposed to be the "we" decade turned into "me me me mine and me but not you".
And The Police sang "When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around" more prophetically than it was ever meant.