Those few remaining degrees evaporated within a decade there after. That was 1962, by 1969 the erosion began & then rapidly set in. By 1972 is was speeding towards degeneracy at warp speed. The only thing holding it back was our parents generation, who put us on that path but with limits. Those limits were sliding as more & more passed from this earth.
Agreed.
Life got to good and easy for the new generations after boomers at least.