> I might disagree with his conclusion which seems to be that things are just as bad now, or worse than they were say 70 years ago. I'm not sure it's his concl

> I might disagree with his conclusion which seems to be that things are just as bad now, or worse than they were say 70 years ago. I'm not sure it's his conclusion. From the article: > This is also why I am wary whenever people start boasting about how much better we’re doing than back in the bad old days. That precise statement seems to in fact be true. But people have a bad tendency to follow it up with “And so now most people have it pretty good” I think his point is that things might be better, subjectively, but they're still not that good, objectively.