We don't have to reel back 200 years. We can reel back 80, 50, 30 and look at: Who has electricity? Who has indoor plumbing? Who has air conditioning? Who h

We don't have to reel back 200 years. We can reel back 80, 50, 30 and look at: Who has electricity? Who has indoor plumbing? Who has air conditioning? Who has internet access at home? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/technology-adoption-by-households-in-the-united-states https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/technology-adoption-by-ho... The things that today would be considered poverty were considered the norm when my neighbor was a kid. I've worked with many and been close friends with many poor people. I'm under no illusions that their lives are all hunky dory. I just don't feel the need to pretend things weren't significantly worse in many important ways in the recent past.