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MythBusters-types of people can only exist in a country with garages and residential suburbs.

I think what most changed music and mechanics was the transition from suburbia to flatsharing in the city centers.

Not to mention intact families where parents had sufficient discretionary time (i.e. jobs that paid the bills with reasonable weekly hours) and a culture of prioritizing passing down knowledge to children and creating spaces in the home for them to pursue their individual interests and talents. People are not just atomized economic units.

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