Is there a term for how people tend to view 'acceptable standards of living' as a narrow range around where they're currently at? Too low and it's tragic, too high and it's exorbitant, and both of them spark outrage.
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Some examples: Some people are upset by the idea that people might be paid less than minimum wage, *even if that person considers it worth it to work for that amount*, despite that the living standard of today's poor is still better than it was throughout most of history.
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Why would we not want to keep uplifting those below? And wonder whether the extravagance of those above is a good use of societal resources?
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For over 98% of the history of the human race, the entire species was homeless.
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The richness of true loving social relationships and meaningful amounts of unstructured free time seems to mostly be inversely related to "StAnDaRd oF LiViNg", which seems to mostly mean subsumed to consumerist-wage-slavery-totalizing-monetization of everything. muddy language