Your model of poverty is incredibly bad if you think that being poor today is *better* than being a king in the past.
Definitely yes, there are way better practical things the rich have that the poor don't. But if you had exactly what the poor has, just transplanted back hundreds of years, you might feel happy - because the interpretation of our circumstances comes from contrast
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The employment participation rate of poor men has dropped over the last 10 yrs & deaths from opioids are way up. Is that because of “contrast” or because things are absolutely worse...?
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Everything is contrast. The employment rate is bad because it used to be better - if it was even worse before and it'd increased, we'd be happier about it.
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