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"On every measurable metric, there has literally never been a better time to be alive and living in America." I mean, we have a measurable metric right now- yo
by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
"On every measurable metric, there has literally never been a better time to be alive and living in America."
I mean, we have a measurable metric right now- young people dying in high rates, suicide is up, average life expectancy is down?
- TurkishPoptart 7y agoIf this were Reddit, I would like to wave away parent's argument with an "OK, Boomer" meme. I think it's simply propaganda that "things are better now then they ever were before! wee!" The statistics shown here and highlighted by other posters make this clear: we have many problems.
- FussyZeus 7y agoAnd things are always better in the developed world, that doesn't inherently mean people fortunate enough to live here instead of say, rural Africa, have nothing to fucking complain about. First world problems are still problems afterall. Yeah the people living in isolated hunter-gatherer societies most assuredly have it worse, but just because you're in America with a car you can barely afford and are eating a steady diet of boiled rice in a studio apartment with no furniture in it, and are thusly compared with that hunter gatherer person doing okay, doesn't mean you have no right to complain that your boss, Jeff Bezos has over TWENTY homes all worth more than you'll ever make in a LIFETIME.