> look at bigger items like health care, housing, and education Indeed. Question is, what will a dollar buy you? We have more treatments for illness, we have m

> look at bigger items like health care, housing, and education Indeed. Question is, what will a dollar buy you? We have more treatments for illness, we have more educational options, more and more. There is no silver bullet to be sure, and there is no universal upside option, but surely now is a better time to be almost any income percentile, in almost any place on the planet. Where geographically it has gotten worse, e.g. Flint Michigan, I am not sure how we make a world where Roger & Me is released in 1989, and 30 years later, the population is 2/3s what it was then. Part of life is change, and making the world better requires that people adapt with the changes.