Im talking silent generation and greatest generation

Not if you’re talking about ubiquitous running water… (in the 1930s to 50s, only 70% of urban homes had indoor plumbing, while a scant 20% of rural ones, where about half the population lived, did.)

The gap between richest and poorest in the first world is that much worse just for the obscene levels of wealth some have.

Again, this has nothing to do with the world.

An india and china were helped by aid in the past but you would need to look before 2000 for that.

Okay and the revocation of aid now is not going to stop their development. No idea what you’re trying to say.

a few places that were worse off have gotten kinda sorta almost lives like yours.

No, literally for most of the world, life has gotten better. That’s the entire point.

when living in india near an ocean sounds great to a first worlder

If they are impressively ignorant, sure. If you are a middle class person, hell, even poor, in the first world, would you swap places with a random Indian or Chinese person? If you have any understanding of those countries, the answer would be a hard no.

It ignores that we had a generation or three at one time where an entire large family could be supported with one income working 40 hours a week and owning their own home that had electricity and running water with no great success.

Yes, the boomers were among the wealthiest generation that has ever lived. (Though, let’s not forget that at the times you’re talking about, this really only applied to straight white men, for women, minorities etc, well, they have a very different perspective on those golden years you’re talking about.) Globally though, first world boomers were among the very richest in the entire world. As the charts in the article show, the richest in the world, then as now, things are (relative to the global poor) going down for them.

Things can both be getting worse for us, as we are among the wealthiest on the planet (are you making the clothes or wearing them? How many of your friends have a phone vs how many of them have lost limbs mining the cobalt that they need?) while getting better for the vast majority of people.

Trump stopped so many programs and many countries are following suite and can’t make up for the loss even if they could.

USAID etc are not the engines of economic development among the world’s poorest. They generally exist to mitigate horrific problems (think war based starvation, HIV etc) which tangentially affect poverty but really, the big stars are places like India and China which have risen literally billions out of poverty with focused development etc.

Yes, our pampered lives are probably not going to be as easy as our parents. But compared to almost everyone else on the planet, my God we have a sweet deal.

I’m so curious about this. For a government focused on cost savings etc, you’d expect them to tout numbers showing how this would somehow save money…

Wfh seems like an easy way to attract top talent, cut office costs etc.

On the plus side, I think you at least you read the article…

and of course looks globally so that its not showing whats happening to the poor and middle class in the developed world

Yes, it’s an article about the world, it’s probably going to look globally. It’d be very weird if it didn’t.

Can’t decide if its looking at the richest 10% or 1%

It’s using multiple data points to make their point. In this case, that which is true for the top 10% are also generally true for the 1%, or in other words, this isn’t a phenomenon driven by only one or the other of those groups.

On top of it comparing 2015 to 2025

It compares 2000 to 2025 as well.

and then uses spending

Yes. People who were too poor to afford things can now afford things. But, the same progress is true over a huge variety of metrics. Years ago, women (yes, poor societies tend to be patriarchal) would spend ungodly amounts of their lives lugging water kilometers for their families to use. Housing has gotten better. Malnutrition and deaths of hunger have significantly decreased. Poor parents send more of their kids to school and are burying fewer of them. Huge swathes of the world now have electricity! I cannot recommend Factfulness enough, it’s astounding how incorrect so many of our assumptions are.

whats happening to the poor and middle class in the developed world

I think this is your real point. And sure, for the poor and middle class, who are among the wealthiest people who have ever lived and who generally live a life that would be unimaginable to all but the richest handful over history (hell, a warm shower, now taken for granted, would have been a wild luxury not too long ago) yeah, their standards haven’t risen that much. But consider, even the poorest in the developed world are still wearing clothes made by children who burn to death, and depressingly, those kids are generally (roughly) in the middle income bracket of global incomes.

The developed world has been so far ahead of second and third world countries that yeah, while things might be stagnating for us, for the world as a whole, things are still drastically improving.

Though, if you read to the end, you’ll notice they do talk about rising inequality within countries, which is what you’re talking about.

Lesson is, do not fight people when you are famous and people know you are going to be a multimillionaire.

That tracks. Hans Rosling’s book Factfulness made much the same case about how much life has improved for the world’s poorest.

In our supremely pampered ignorance, most of us have no real idea of how bad world poverty was just within living memory.

Things aren’t great and they could be much better but holy damn, things are much better today than they were.

Fair, I probably should’ve mirror flipped the pic.

I remember reading a great thing on the economics of gyms… Iirc, they basically depend on those NY resolution folks to pay and not show up.

Battle Angel Alita was a lot of fun. (Admittedly, I’m a sucker for good action sequences.)

I went to the pool in the first week and wanted to cry, felt like we were damn near nose to toes.

Also, great username.

Despite the name, the Young Girls of Rochefort. It’s French, 1960s, impeccable set design and just oozes style and fun.

Sweet Charity is another. Bon Fosse has some absurd choreography in there and Shirley McLean is lovely. Also, if you’re a Simpsons fan there’s a song there that’ll make you go “OH!!! THAT’S WHAT THAT WAS!!!”

It was a heck of a lot of fun.

“Oh no, he fell out a window. On his way down he was yelling about giving Ukraine back to mother Russia though…”

Love it, I can almost hear the space synthwave now.

Admittedly, if I had slaves, I think I’d be pretty worried about weapons just lying around…

Ehhhhhh.

The fact trump calls everyone domestic terrorists doesn’t mean domestic terrorism won’t ever happen.

(Also, it’d be downright bizzare for the US to launch a well planned operation like this in any country without working CIA contacts etc in said regime/country.)

we shouldn’t expect new users to be looking for a new hobby.

Infinitely this!

Yes, it’s super cool to have control over your own damned machine but for some, the computer is just the thing the lets them work, porn and game.

Unless it’s Arch. At which point we need Ramsay bowing down or somesuch.

Ahahaha!

Yeah, Mint as well. From my reading it’s because I have an additional layer, my tv goes to the stereo receiver and from there links into the computer. Unfortunately, the receiver tells the computer when it’s shut off but not when it’s turned on or somesuch. So, right now I’ve “solved” the issue by disabling the auto shut off. But it means the computer always thinks three monitors are on and engaged. Which causes issues as my primary is the desktop monitor etc. Nothing outrageous but one of those tweaks I’d like to make. And unlike Windows, it’s a tweak I know I can make.

That’d be cool!