The comments here are simultaneously glorifying the past and catastrophizing the present. Modern society is filled with leisure and time compared to history. M

The comments here are simultaneously glorifying the past and catastrophizing the present. Modern society is filled with leisure and time compared to history. Many of the problems of the past have been widely solved, and those solutions have brought new problems. Discounting todays solutions based on todays problems misses the historical context this article is addressing. “The children have obtained what their parents and grandparents longed for — greater freedom, greater material welfare, a juster society: but the old ills are forgotten, and the children face new problems”