The 1980's was a bad decade for many people . Credit was too abundant and it caused three major market crashes.

Computers were too expensive ; A reliable instruction manual was impossible to find. Internet was slow and practically non existent for most people.

"SMUG" would be a good word to define a decade of unhelpful dim-witted people who did not earn their victories . Health care was full of quacks and it inspired a racist patient with brain cancer to shoot up a McDonalds in San Ysidro, California . Beware of nostalgia shills.