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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 5 Jul 2018
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    Some observations based on the responses to this tweet: https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1014545250864517120 … Many insist that anyone who believes life to be worse today than 50 years ago must be delusional, because they neglect all the objective metrics which prove unassailably that life is, in fact, better

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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 TV pic.twitter.com/R3vlXFBlmd
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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 5 Jul 2018
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        You can't simply appeal to abstract statistics in order to show people that their pessimistic mental states are irrational. Happiness, contentedness, etc. can't be easily quantified. Telling someone that they're perceiving their own life circumstances wrongly will backfire

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 5 Jul 2018
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        Many have pointed to advances in cancer treatments, for example, as proof that life is obviously better today than it was 50 years ago. But people don't tend to measure the essential worthiness of their lives in terms of the availability of pharmaceuticals

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      4. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 5 Jul 2018
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        They tend to measure the worthiness of their lives in terms of personal fulfillment, economic stability, communal coherence, familial bonds, etc. As those things wither away, it's no surprise that they negatively rate their outlook, even as on paper certain metrics improve

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      5. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 5 Jul 2018
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        Chastising people for not sufficiently appreciating the wonders of technology is not going to make them any more content with their station in life. In anything, it'll just breed more resentment, as they (rightly) reject the arrogant premise that iPhones and Teslas = happiness

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      6. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 5 Jul 2018
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        Those with a pessimistic outlook are not going to be persuaded by statistics which bear little relevance to their own lived experience. They're not deluded, either. What's delusional is this hectoring attitude which rejects the agency of people to report on their own lives

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      2. Aliquickk‏ @Aliquickk 5 Jul 2018
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        Well statistically it's true. Life is FAR BETTER.

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      3. I Am Not Sure‏ @eyemnotsure 5 Jul 2018
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        It depends. Younger generations can’t raise a family on just one salary or struggle with two. Underpaid college graduates with debt that won’t be able to repay. How many people fail to stay afloat/safe/healthy choosing between paying healthcare,food,utility,or house bills, etc?

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      1. The Snark Knight‏ @TheBrownFolder 5 Jul 2018
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        One might also note that the very premise of the slogan “make America great again” is that things are worse than they used to be...

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      1. BlastofFreshAir‏ @BlastofFreshAir 5 Jul 2018
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        + the feeling/ knowing we are being ripped off w/ endless wars, our rights being trampled via the Patriot Act etc., us getting the short end of the stick via bailouts, country has high incarceration rates. Not saying all doom but addressing the question

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      1. Kathy Woods‏ @woods_kathy 5 Jul 2018
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        When neolibs hear 41% of Americans feel increasingly dissatisfied with their lives, their reaction is to provide empirical proof that the feelings are incorrect.

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      1. John Weir‏ @tweetatweir 5 Jul 2018
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        Ask the grand parents. They know a thing or two. A lesson that was hard for me to learner.

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      1. A‏ @PeaceLoveAnie 5 Jul 2018
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        Excellent post

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      1. Problematic Pleb‏ @ProblematicPleb 5 Jul 2018
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        The human condition has been consistently improving since the invention of writing, probably was before that too. It's just frustratingly slow in terms of one human lifespan. The ups and downs seem much more dramatic when they are closer to us on the timeline

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      2. Max Newton‏ @Max_Newton 5 Jul 2018
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        Well most observable objective metrics “life expectancy, technology, wars, etc” favor the today camp. Everything is relative though, “happier” probably tough to gauge.

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