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If you could control any year of human history, but not where (or who) you were born as, everyone would choose the present day. Despite the noise and tumult, th
by xnx 2y ago
If you could control any year of human history, but not where (or who) you were born as, everyone would choose the present day. Despite the noise and tumult, the average life today is much lower in suffering than even 100 years ago.
Even if you could pick the place and person, I'm still not sure there's any better time to be alive than today. A lot of people imagine being a white American male was better in 1950 than today, but I'm not so sure.
- lenerdenator 2y agoMake it 1986. There are a lot of people, particularly Millennial men, whose parents had it better at that time than the Millennial men do now.
- happytoexplain 2y agoYes, on the scale of centuries, but I think we are on the other side of the peak now, at least in the US. Being born 40 to 60 years ago is probably better than being born 10 to 30 years ago. And that is the timescale humans live and think in.