https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=seasick&year_start=1700&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=1#

Why?

Boomers are one of the least sea sick generations in history, you gotta hand it to them.

The mid-20th century dip is in the early 70s. That's roughly when the dollar is unarmored from the gold standard, thusly turning the post-Bretton Wooods world seasick, adrift, rudderless.

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Increasing with the number of people who can be on boats (which were probably mostly limited to trading for a long time), going up with increasing passenger voyages and peaking during WWII when people volunteered or were drafted into the Navy, going down with the advent of faster airplane travel and as the number of books/articles written about the war afterwards eventually decreased, then maybe back up again with things like cruise ships? Not really sure what the last recent spike is about otherwise.

  • sin_eater [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Rising disparity means more bored apes whining on their fucking yachts.

    • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Getting all your friends to come over and bring their PCs so you can play StarCraft and Age of Empires together, and everyone gets LANsick

  • Prolefarian [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I was gonna say maybe people got seasick less as they got used to riding in cars but that doesn't explain the latest spike