No one cares that our lives are better than humans who lived thousands of years ago or even 100 years ago. And why should we? The benchmark is other humans livi

No one cares that our lives are better than humans who lived thousands of years ago or even 100 years ago. And why should we? The benchmark is other humans living today and how they are faring. > We'd have to fall pretty far for their standard of living to decline below that of Pharaoh Ramses II. Not most people in America. Sure, Ramses didn't have a car, phone or modern medicine; but he could get whatever he wanted _that was available at the time_. That's the yardstick.