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Technologists like this community often back up how great things are today by pointing out how even poor people today have material objects that kings couldn't
by spodek 9y ago
Technologists like this community often back up how great things are today by pointing out how even poor people today have material objects that kings couldn't dream of years ago, like big TVs.
And yet look at how many people medicate to handle life.
- SamUK96 9y agoI think about this a lot. I worry that the people of yesteryear had a simpler and probably tougher life, but a more fulfilling one. Like I always said, a cold beer on a hot day feels so much better when you know you've earned it. Today, do we feel we've earned that big TV, the big car, the free social housing? It's all faceless and non-creative.
- muninn_ 9y agoIt amounts to a lack of community. Things like Facebook where people spend a stupid amount of their time, disconnect them from their local community and give them a false sense of healthy human relationships. How is it that somebody can have 1000 Facebook friends but not know their next door neighbor?
- Zigurd 9y agoEconomists really should get on estimating the hedonics of such meds. Every man can afford not to give a damn. True wealth.
- zitterbewegung 9y agoMany Poor people (not all let me stress that) today have access to medications that could help them with mood disorders, pain management , and various other medications that Kings could not even dream of years ago.
- TheAdamAndChe 9y agoSadly, access to medication does not counter all the other issues that are causing a declining quality of life for lower and middle class Americans.
- justinator 9y agoMaybe those material objects are also ways both kings then, and poor people now medicate themselves. Think of how it was to be a part of royalty - there's a lot of isolation involved. Humans need social interaction. When we can't get it, sometimes we fill our lives with stuff that owns us. That doesn't work, so we try drugs. Perhaps it's more like, we're not fighting the root cause of the problem: we're all lonely and scared. No amount of money, or social status, or stuff is going to help us how to learn to love, and be loved. It's just going to make others envy us and envy isn't love.
- sharkweek 9y agoWe're all lonely and scared, and we all believe that we're the only person on earth who is lonely and scared. We love to distract our own terrifying thoughts with stuff (work, television, busy social lives...), instead of learning how to handle an overactive brain that spends the majority of its time trying to scare us shitless.