Because if you've had any exposure to how conditions were even two generations ago, even people in Flint have it reasonably good - it's the water issue that's o

Because if you've had any exposure to how conditions were even two generations ago, even people in Flint have it reasonably good - it's the water issue that's obviously a problem. > My grandparents grew up without electricity or plumbing, not even a telephone. > Infant mortality when they were born was 10% for children under the age of 1. > There was no healthcare. > There was no retirement/social assistance. > There was no welfare. > Many of grandads peers died in brutal wars. > Epidemic diseases (aka spanish flu etc.) were still common and would wipe out a lot of people. > There was no right to vote for women. There was no transparency in governance. > There was no concept of 'worker safety' - people did unbelievably dangerous things. My grandfather worked in a lumber camp in dead winter, cutting down and hauling trees surrounded by others doing the same. > There was no higher education for regular folk. > They were white as can be yet faced intense racism as 'dirty Germans' (i.e. two world wars). > Heck there wasn't even anything made of plastic ... can you imagine! ... I could go on and on ... Life is incredibly better (materially, maybe not socially) for almost everyone, most of us wouldn't survive two weeks in Victorian-era conditions.