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While it's true that there are differences, I think one lesson we should learn from history is that that virtually every group thinks they're especially unusual
by wyattpeak 5y ago
While it's true that there are differences, I think one lesson we should learn from history is that that virtually every group thinks they're especially unusual and that lessons don't apply to them, and simultaneously that they're usually not so unique as they think, and the lessons usually do apply to them.
School was less common at that time, but plenty of people went to school, and if there was a marked dropoff in employablility even in just that group, it should absolutely be visible.
- moonchrome 5y ago> and if there was a marked dropoff in employablility even in just that group, it should absolutely be visible. Based on statistics and records from over a 100 years ago in an industrial economy ?
- wyattpeak 5y agoYes. It's 1920, not 1620. Here's a page from a 1920 census: https://raogk.org/census-record/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/10/1920-United-States-Federal-Census-for-Griggs-County-North-Dakota.jpg https://raogk.org/census-record/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2... Here's a tax return form from the same year: http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/1040forms.nsf/WebByYear/1920/$file/1040_1920.pdf http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/1040forms.nsf/WebByYear/1920/$...
- jefftk 5y agoThe tax return says it is only for people making at least $5k, which would be $70k today.
- wyattpeak 5y agoIf you want the actual data sources used by the paper, read the paper. I'm not trying to replicate an academic's source-finding, that would take months. I'm trying to quickly demonstrate that the US was a thoroughly bureaucratic nation by 1920, not some kind of backwater where we have to guess and infer demographics.