Well I wasn't a kid, I was already working.
I do hear younger people talking about '80s nostalgia and it actually fascinates me because I simultaneously think it's a bit ridiculous and yet feel it in my heart when I hear these things.
For me, nostalgia comes from a time when your dad had to adjust the antenna on the TV, never your mom. When getting a phone call from far away was an event and the whole family would gather near the phone on the wall while your mom held the receiver and you all spoke to Grandma.
It's visiting people who had wood stoves since forever, it's a social organization that was as rigid as it was secure. Women in the home, milkmen, pipe smoking tweed wearing academics on black and white television talking about important things.
In terms of Hegel, we gave that structure of the world and an antithesis of emancipated women, whiteness ridiculed, gender roles trashed , Capitalism unleashed so that we had more than ever by the 80s but the poor became untouchables.
But yes.