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Originally Posted By u/FuturePowerful At 2025-03-27 10:18:54 AM | Source

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[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How’d we get there at the time? Was it public political will? The need to fund the world wars? Did we always have high rates and only in the last few decades back off from that being the norm?