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A comment on Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded. Parent comment

Re:Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded by paulddraper on Friday November 04, 2016 @02:27PM (#12874759)
How many middle-class people had instant access to 90% of the human knowledge and entertainment 30 years ago?

How many have instant access right this second?

Life is far easier and more convenient than it used to be. Most of the middle-class live as better than kings of past centuries.

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Re:Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded by smacktoward on Friday November 04, 2016 @02:36PM (#12874824)
> How many middle-class people had instant access to 90% of the human knowledge and entertainment 30 years ago?

But at the same time as they got that, they lost access to things their parents took for granted like job security and reliable health care and thriving, stable communities. Getting access to Wikipedia is great, but it does not automatically balance that scale.

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Re:Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded by paulddraper on Friday November 04, 2016 @03:04PM (#12875036)
> reliable health care

Health care is more available to humanity than at any time in history.

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Re:Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded by Arnt on Friday November 04, 2016 @03:30PM (#12875294)
Let me guess: your parents were WASPs.
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