BBC News - The evidence that shows today’s 20-somethings really do have it worse - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8mnvk4r48o
A decade of falling incomes? JRF’s pre-budget assessment of living standards https://www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-living/a-decade-of-falling-incomes-jrfs-pre-budget-assessment-of-living-standards
The 1950s-1980s are a unique time in human history where things generally got insanely better for many people, particularly in the west, and basically created the modern concept of the middle class.
At the end of the 80s Thatcher and Reagan had set the time bomb, public wealth was burned to give the illusion of even more prosperity, except now the prosperity was going, year on year, predominantly to the elite again, as it was in the Victorian era.
Now we’re here, the bomb is going off, things are getting worse for everyone except the ultra wealthy, denying it just makes it easier for them to ensure you can’t resist when the penny drops.
They want us back in our places, with Victorian era inequality
That explains all the rising depression and anxiety.
After all, the things that make life worth living are the new iPhone.
Why point out the middle ages? Those 1000 years were not worse than any other historic period, be it in antiquity or the early modern era.
Most inventions that make today’s candy land are from the last 50-150 years.Also, this is a very wealthy perspective. Easy access to fresh water, clean plumbing, access to modern medicin, central heating with thermostats, all that good stuff does not exist for large parts of humanity.
And yet even those parts of humanity live better than 100 years ago.
If you are literally starving or dying from a preventable disease without access to healthcare, it doesn’t really matter if it is happening now or 1000 years ago, the result is exactly the same.
Claiming that every human on Earth lives better than 100 years ago is not only objectively wrong, but rings of the “even our homeless here in the US lives better than the richest person in Africa” ignorant nonsense some people likes to spew.
Do you measure better only by healthcare? A progress was made in almost every facet of life. Even in places where access to modern healthcare is limited or nonexistent.
I would not agree to that generalization.
Feel free.
… and don’t get me started about the Devonian Period…
Well this comment thread is a barrel of laughs…
