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Traditional responses see that as either good (which I think is your implication) or terrible, a la "bread and circuses" where people are too complacent to dema
by blacksmith_tb 3y ago
Traditional responses see that as either good (which I think is your implication) or terrible, a la "bread and circuses" where people are too complacent to demand any real changes. I would say that the "average person" is a tricky model, here in the US there are people sleeping on the sidewalk, but they have smartphones in their pockets. Are they better off than a Roman emperor? I would say no.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoThanks for pointing this out. It helped me contextualize the argument. It is a combination of "Other People Have It Worse Than You Do" but uses the past as a point of reference. We could just as easy compare ourselves to our presumably better off future and say that we have it worse off than them so we deserve to improve things now.