A.k.a. these are not the best questions to ask to understand the current political mood..
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When I was born in 1968, the world had not yet discovered the greatest game ever. Pong. We were not better off 50 years ago.
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All those things are true — though one difference might also be a big diminution in purchasing power of healthcare, housing and education.
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It would be something if survey respondents somehow understood in realistic and objective terms life was worse back then but believed that people were still relatively happier, better hedonistically normalized to those conditions as Nicholas Agar would put it. Just brainstorming.
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I’d like to see the age breakdown, so many crisis right now may be baby boomers freaking out because they aren’t an 18 year old at Woodstock
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Yeah - these surveys really mean "I was more optimistic/excited/not-disillusioned about life at age 16 than I am at age 66"
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The more difficult question is whether the ex ante probability of human species-level extinction in the lifetime of people currently living was higher now or then.
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Unless I'm misreading this, do you mean to imply that a human species-level extinction is plausibly more likely in the lifetime of someone living now than in 1968?
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Look at that he countries and consider WWII.
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And this is why we can't have nice things.
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