> Would you rather live in a world with no smartphones where you afford a house/apartment How rich are your poor? That may seem a silly question, but are poor

> Would you rather live in a world with no smartphones where you afford a house/apartment How rich are your poor? That may seem a silly question, but are poor people really buying houses? Did they ever? You seem to be talking about middle class people - perhaps lower middle class at worst. The question is where is that threshold? At what decile is the world worse? The bottom 10%? The third bottom? Where? This is not as clear cut as house no technology/no house technology. This is an issue that affects different percentiles of the income curve differently. There are no doubt some parts of the income curve in some specific locations worse off, but I'm not sure people have a full grasp of how much better life is in general in the 1st world today versus 1960, let alone 1920 or worse, during the Great Depression.