Yeah, things have gotten markedly worse, objectively worse. Which is not to say things have not been bad before, or even worse before. I definitely think we’re

Yeah, things have gotten markedly worse, objectively worse. Which is not to say things have not been bad before, or even worse before. I definitely think we’re in a local decline and I expect the decline to continue. It’s harder to escape crime and noise. It’s harder buy decent food. It’s harder to earn a decent wage. People are increasingly narcissistic. I think lobbyists have gotten better at their jobs at corrupting politics. But there used to be razor gangs roaming the cities, Charles Babbage was hounded to an early grave by street musicians. Rancid food would be laced with dangerous chemicals to cover up the smell. People used to be proud of having the Disease of Kings (gout), and is hard to imagine a greater corruption of politics than the South East India company, or the Robber Barons. I think it’s a reversion to the mean; It is post WWII America that is the aberration and we’re now living in the afterglow of that. We seem to be trending towards some kind of feudalism and that is really going to suck for the vast majority of people.