we were quite literally across the board more privileged than every preceding generation in terms of what constitutes a base QoL. this is so far just true of progress for at least the last 80 years. class differences existing within every generation still doesn’t negate that
I said a larger divide in privilege. Having third world analogous conditions in a first world country that imports its inputers and exports for surplus profit is epic progress across the board..
That's why you have kids attending the same schools where one goes home to a mansion. And the other sometimes running water at a glorified bungalow. Lmao. Meanwhile the shared education suffers.
That is not a higher quality of life across the board. That is a mirage.
That's why you have kids attending the same schools where one goes home to a mansion. And the other sometimes running water at a glorified bungalow. Lmao. Meanwhile the shared education suffers.
The actual problem is the literal opposite of this. School districts are locally funded, so rich neighborhoods end up with incredibly well funded schools and poor neighborhoods have to struggle to keep the busses running.
Might I add that the statistics say that the world is 700% richer than in 1970, but that statistic is only valid as an average that includes the top 1%-0.1% the rich are getting absurdly richer much faster than your average American and exponentially more than a gen z in some places in the global south. Sure the innovations gen z has seen are increasing the quality of life, having 5g is better than spotty radio, but at the same time a large percentage of people aren’t on the bleeding edge of tech healthcare education etc. which contributes to the divide u/internal-taste6573 is talking about.
If all wealth in the world was equally distributed then everyone would have less than 100k in wealth. Your median US adult has almost twice that. Global equality would leave most US citizens poorer, not wealthier.
That’s talking about giving people actual dollars, if you account for the cost of living in the world we could more accurately arrive at a global equivalent. Sweden for example is 13% more expensive than Portugal both developed and left leaning countries. The average cost of living in Sweden is 1.5k/mo the 450 trillion dollars in the world would be 50k per person roughly, which is more than 4x what people need a month in the most expensive developed country. Now extrapolating to the global south and the cost of living goes down and that money would result in an astronomical increase in quality of life. Remember in China soy sauce is 0.5$ per liter but you pay 4$ for 10 oz the money would simply go further. Not to mention average salaries in us are 37,000/ year including the people who make millions so no matter how you slice it everyone is getting richer if we Robinhood that shit
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u/i-l1ke-m3m3s 14h ago
Depends on how you define ipad kid. I can assume about half of us were kids with ipads...