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Blinding irony being the "cool detachment to all theories guy" persona you project here being equally as abstact as those you observe.

• netcan 13y ago
  That's a little hostile. What exactly is rubbing you the wrong way about my comment? Here's the jist of what I am trying to say. (1) I don't know if people are better or worse off now than before. (2) I'm don't think we have a very good quantifiable way of deciding that argument. (3) Many arguments of intelligent people are trying to provide an answer to this question smells a lot like intelligent people trying to fit their world into their philosophical framework. (4) The answer to that question (or some aspects of the answer) may be subjective or at least a bad fit for the economic vocabulary we typically use to tackle it. IE, Has the value of a median family car gone up over the last 50 years because its objective quality has improved or has it gone down because the the people buying them grew up expecting to own one whereas their grandparents found themselves able to afford one, exceeding their expectations when growing up. Any specific statement you find objectionable?