What good is it when you have to perform one or multiple menial jobs every day just to exist. That lifestyle doesn't leave you with much mental energy at the end of a long work day to absorb and learn from the world's knowledge at your fingertips. Yes, some folks are probably able to pull themselves out of that situation - but those are edge cases.
On top of that the added anxiety people experience because of living paycheck to paycheck.
It's becoming more and more like in the movie Elysium - all the technological wonders are there - just not accessible to the poor.
Re:How the World Is Getting Better
by JumpCrisscross on Friday April 07, 2023 @09:14PM
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> when you have to perform one or multiple menial jobs every day just to exist
Again, you’re comparing this to a past where continuing to exist wasn’t a given.
> What good is it when you have to perform one or multiple menial jobs every day just to exist.
...???
> just not accessible to the poor.
Homeless have iphones. A technology a king wouldn't ever be able to make. Thank capitalism and go outside.
Re:How the World Is Getting Better
by sriram_malhar on Saturday April 08, 2023 @12:08AM
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I had to laugh at this. Spend a weekend at a homeless shelter to encounter a reality VERY different from yours.
Huh? For all you know I'm homeless posting from my iphone.
Yep - Classic homeless person, telling everyone to thank capitalism.
Classic homeless person is deranged or drug addicted. Again: maybe I'm on heroin, experiencing extreme bipolar disorder, and posting from my iphone under a bridge. Do not judge me.
Sometimes I think it might be better to be dead than to live a miserable life
Well, you’re living. Without disease, war or famine. The world’s knowledge at your fingertips.
I’m about your age, and while there is a lot of work to be done, one of the most difficult hurdles to solving them is the nihilism and civic disengagement in our generation and industry. We’re sitting in a golden age of human achievement at the centre of the first world.
> could make a very similar list focusing on income, cost of living and relative buying power on a timescale of 50 years or another on the environment on a scale of 20 years and both would be quite depressing
Real wages have gone up over the last fifty and twenty years. Living in cities has become less affordable. But that you’re citing that as a standard of wellbeing, it’s a massive improvement from the post-War era.