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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 4 Jul 2018
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    Be sure to inform the people whose life expectancies have dropped, social/familial bonds have frayed, pensions have evaporated, and brains have been ravaged by depression that they're indulging in "nostalgic bullshit" because today there are 900 channels on TVpic.twitter.com/R3vlXFBlmd

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      1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 4 Jul 2018
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        Generally speaking, hectoring people for being dissatisfied with their lives is a losing proposition. You can toss out all the statistics in the world, but you don't inhabit their minds

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      2. tedfrank‏Verified account @tedfrank 5 Jul 2018
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        Life expectancy in 1968 was under 70 years. Today it’s 78.7 years. Drugs that didn’t exist in 1968 saved my life in 2015-17. Maybe you have an argument things are worse than 2005 for certain sub-demographics? But certainly not 1968.

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 5 Jul 2018
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        Maybe a worthy life can't be measured exclusively in terms of the availability of pharmaceuticals?

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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 4 Jul 2018
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        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/21/us-life-expectancy-down-for-second-year-in-a-row-amid-opioid-crisis …

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      2. Glenn Greenwald‏Verified account @ggreenwald 4 Jul 2018
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        I have an idea: they should them: "America is ALREADY Great." Do you think that would convince them?

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 4 Jul 2018
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        Just stick an iPhone in their face and remind them of all the amazing apps that are available to accomplish tasks which people used to be paid reasonably to do, that should convince them

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      2. Amanda‏ @MaynAvent 4 Jul 2018
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        50yrs ago a family could afford to buy a home a new car and go on family vacations off of ONE income. Now we can barely get by on 2 incomes, no new car (ours are 2002 and 2003) maybe 1 family weekend stay in a hotel with a pool somewhere nearby. And God forbid one of us gets sick

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      2. Kraig‏ @kraigeous 4 Jul 2018
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        Kraig Retweeted Simon Kuestenmacher

        The number of people globally climbing out of deep poverty is growing so rapidly that graphs can hardly represent it. Meanwhile the west grovels in self-immolating guilt and/or empty consumerism. Ideologies of negativity are self fulfilling, my friend.https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1014572328523587585?s=21 …

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        I love this animation! World Income Mountains 1950-2015 animated in the style of Gapminder and Factfulness shows us just how many people are exiting the stage of extreme poverty. Source: https://buff.ly/2z96yqR  pic.twitter.com/zdCAqoAOby
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        Might want to check out some Native reservations, homeless tent cities or rural elderly homes for a better ersective I had running water in '68, I don't now

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      2. Al Garcas‏ @AlexGarciaTwi 4 Jul 2018
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        This tweet makes me sad. Especially from a journalist who should be aware about the problem that mainly bad news get coverage. You should try to look beyond the fence.pic.twitter.com/yJMNaDRpEM

        2 replies 2 retweets 12 likes
      3. Al Garcas‏ @AlexGarciaTwi 4 Jul 2018
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        It’s important to stay optimistic in these difficult times. We should never forget where we come from and where we’re at now. Nostalgia is a real concept and a real problem when we forget to be rational about the things idealize from way back when.

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      1. Huell Babineaux did nothing wrong‏ @jtLOL 5 Jul 2018
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        If you're determined to be miserable, nobody can stop you.

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      2. Kathy Woods‏ @woods_kathy 4 Jul 2018
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        If Frum were conducting a clinical trial of a new medication and 41% of subjects came back reporting severe abdominal pain, he would conclude that the medication may cause hypochondria.

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      1. David‏ @coredump27 4 Jul 2018
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        Say what!? 50 glorious years of corporatism, globalisation, mass immigration, and necon wars, and STILL some people aren't happy!

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      1. A Lonely Tree‏ @a_lonelytree 4 Jul 2018
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        Replying to @mtracey @JeremyMcLellan

        Why? Is it gadgets, keeping up with the Jones’s, mind numbing tv, bills, debt or Lack of trees. All of the above? Sad

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      2.  🌊ʇᴉɯᴉl ɐɯǝɥɔs® 🌊 🤘🏼‏ @TimForgot 4 Jul 2018
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        Replying to @mtracey @KyleKulinski

        If they didn't have cable, six computers, cell phones for their kids, etc., their stasis would be better today than it was fifty years ago. I'm not a troll. I respect you, Kyle. People don't have to spin the hamster wheel.

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      3.  🌊ʇᴉɯᴉl ɐɯǝɥɔs® 🌊 🤘🏼‏ @TimForgot 4 Jul 2018
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        Replying to @TimForgot @mtracey @KyleKulinski

        Talking about how predatory lending and advertising has eaten up those gains is completely valid, and should be discussed. The fact that we can't be 'lazy' despite record gains in automation should be discussed. Philosophers define problems, not solutions. Do you see any light?

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