This point of view has always baffled me. It invites a kind of “shut up and be happy” mentality - like we should have all been happy subsisting on gruel in Vict

This point of view has always baffled me. It invites a kind of “shut up and be happy” mentality - like we should have all been happy subsisting on gruel in Victorian workhouses merely because we were “better off than in all of history”. It’s silly to say that “basic needs are far exceeded” when we can clearly observe plenty of people in “most first world countries” struggle to meet basic needs.