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He meant moving up in quality of life, not social status. It wasn't even implied, he said so rather specifically ("but really, that's beside the point.") I'd m
by sejje 13y ago
He meant moving up in quality of life, not social status. It wasn't even implied, he said so rather specifically ("but really, that's beside the point.")
I'd much rather be lower class today than upper class in 1776. Comfort, medicine, availability of safe food, etc is all far better now for all classes than it was then for the upper class.
There's a big disparity, in some sense, between lower and upper classes in today's world, but the disparity doesn't show up in happiness or longevity so far as I know. Mostly it's about having nice things, or just wealth in general.
- MaysonL 13y agoThere's a big disparity, in some sense, between lower and upper classes in today's world, but the disparity doesn't show up in happiness or longevity so far as I know. Actually it does: poor people are not as happy as well-off people, on average. Also, for the past 30 or so years, US life expectancy for higher income workers has gone up substantially more then for lower income workers. See [1] for example, or search on "life expectancy by income level" [1] http://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2013/03/income-gap-plays-out-us-life-expectancy http://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2013/03/income-gap-pl...