Hedonic treadmill. People take for granted what they have and compare to themselves to people who have more.
The world improves while the West shakes its own foundations (thinking now of Paris). Why?https://twitter.com/HumanProgress/status/1070792256771244032 …
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No. Just remember, in the 1950's, it was cheap enough to sell a Coca Cola in a glass bottle for 5 cents. Technology has gotten a million times better and somehow they're now at least $1.50 for the same thing. Same with housing and transport. The game is rigged.
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Well, the average isnt a tell all about income for a start...
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Because real wages have been stagnant for 40 years while the price of education and healthcare have skyrocketed, and grown exponentially and those gains have gone to an increasingly narrow sect of the population globally
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This. And combined with a political class living in their own perfectly rationalised neo-liberal bubble.
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We believed reason alone would lead us forward. Now we are trapped in an endless cycle of revolution against the past.
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The fact that you ask why? Illustrates that you are completely out of touch, which in itself is shocking given how much you travel
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