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This hits so hard. All the technological advances, yet how much progress have we _actually_ made?

• ChuckNorris89 6y ago
  A former British colleague of mine summarized this well: "You now have a better standard of living and can afford a car and a bigger, warmer place to live to live than one/two hundred years ago, and yet you're still a servant, except that instead of a serving a crown that can the skin off your back, you serve massive conglomerates that can take the skin off your back."
• voldacar 6y ago
  If anything, technological progress could mask moral or social decay. Survival bias is a thing of course, but reading literature and philosophy from ancient cultures gives me a general sense that they put much more effort than we do into developing virtue and human excellence, or what the Greeks called arete