"Doing well" is just a subjective feeling compared to the past and compared to others around you. Everyone here and everyone I know is doing unimaginably well

"Doing well" is just a subjective feeling compared to the past and compared to others around you. Everyone here and everyone I know is doing unimaginably well compared to the year 1350. Yemen is in the news. Their GDP per capita is $618 USD a year. Everyone I know is doing unimaginably well compared to that. By and large we are a society with the mentality of spoiled children after decades of huge economic growth and no inflation. We got very use to the price of goods and services staying the same while getting better year after year as if it would always be that way. I just seen the other day how a movie ticket use to cost $5 in 1972. That is $37 in 2023 adjusted for inflation. Our lives are so great it is just hard to be impressed by anything.