Are you for fucking real?
Seriously?
You're rating the 1980s on what was available in the media?
...so you lived in a bubble and rated a decade by the availability of cartoons, TV shows, video games and music...
Sorry you're so shallow but some of us had the ability to see past a fucking television back during that time. If you choose to look at things that way...fine, ask most adults how life was during that glorious decade and I bet they'll give a vastly different point of view.
Well, sorry the 80's didn't go well for you... but that's you. I was born in 1981 and the 80's were a great time for my family, my dad was making $16-$20 an hour (sometimes more) hanging drywall and my mom stayed at home with me the first 4 years of my life, then after that got herself a job too. They spoiled me with stuff like Legos, Transformers, and Ninja Turtle toys, and I finally convinced them to get me an NES for Christmas 1987.
So, the 80's was a great decade to me. Sounds like it was for Wes too. Sounds like you were living in your own bubble, no?