> This is not true. Color TV ownership, I'm pretty sure, was nearly universal in the late 1980s and I expect most households had more than one. Not in the rest

> This is not true. Color TV ownership, I'm pretty sure, was nearly universal in the late 1980s and I expect most households had more than one. Not in the rest of the world (I didn't grow up in the US) > Not everything is cheaper, for example health care and gasoline. Healthcare medicines from the 80's did get cheaper, people always want the latest (or are made to buy the latest) which includes the latest tech and is therefor equally expensive or more so. Besides, healthcare is very heavily regulated in the US so if anything this is an example of regulations making things more expensive. Same goes for gasoline. > That seems like something that would be very hard to prove or to establish factually. http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-29/world-actually-becoming-more-peaceful-believe-it-or-not http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-29/world-actually-becomin... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/22/world-less-violent-stats_n_1026723.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/22/world-less-violent-...