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> The quality of life available on even a modest salary nowadays is far, far better. It really depends on how you define "quality of life" and what one means b
by crispyambulance 5y ago
> The quality of life available on even a modest salary nowadays is far, far better.
It really depends on how you define "quality of life" and what one means by "better".
Material comforts and the bare necessities are ONE THING, but if you buy into the idea of "Maslow's hierarchy of needs", we have a huge and growing problem with those higher-level needs (and perhaps even the most base one, psychological) in recent times.
- tehjoker 5y agoThe base one is "physiological", psychological is higher up. However, we are having problems with that due to bad food giving us diabetes, pollution in the water, and too much physical labor destroying bodies in blue collar work (the Sacklers really seized on this to get people addicted to opiates) and not enough physical labor causing health problems in white collar work (diabetes, heart disease, nerve damage from too much sitting).