Yes, we should try to bring up everyone to the highest standard of living possible. I just have no patience for suggestions that for most people that standard o

Yes, we should try to bring up everyone to the highest standard of living possible. I just have no patience for suggestions that for most people that standard of living was higher in the past and we simply need to return to it. It's false, ahistorical nostalgia for the past. A well known psychological effect that distorts peoples understanding of how much the past actually sucked in reality. People watching shows like Bridgerton always imagine they would be among the nobility.