Is is the quality of things or the quality of people? Barriers have been falling and most anything is being "democratized."
Now, there is no Negro league. There is no Made in America. There is no Ma Bell. You might get your news from an Australian conglomerate or from one of the thousands of
newspapers that you can access from around the world. People are all together, buying and working.
That brat that keeps kicking your seat in 44L on the flight to ATL? Some might say that airline quality was better back in their day. I say that I or that kid wouldn't even been on a plane before deregulation. People with money? White men?
Quality can still be had. There are just more options and more buyers. Maybe people make purchases with the lowest bidder fast-food style.
Maybe isn't not better, it's just more selection.
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