This country is only getting started. This world. 1964 things were still a mess. Before that even more. Turn of the century, NYC was rather disgusting save for the wealthy. Slums and tenements everywhere. No building codes. People living in shacks. I remember still seeing people living in shacks when we traveled down south during the 70s. The Great Depression. We’re still recovering from the Great Depression and have effectively been largely using a war like economy to keep things working.