“Things can’t be bad now cause they were bad before”

"Things can't be good now cause they were good before"

That doesn't work.

I didn’t make the comparison in the first place.

Sure, or “things can’t be better because they were worse”

You don’t have a choice about that, and it isn’t a history race.

I’m just suggesting a world where jails and prisons are literally replaced with batteries and datacenters. It’s a medieval institution at best.