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As opposed to all those other times in the past when workers were better off than they are now...
We had it great for a very short period, and only for a few of us, in human history. And we're still better off than anytime before that.
But yes, we could be far better off than we are now.
There's a great deal of room for improvement, but I think that a person who doesn't realize that right now things are better than they have ever been is not a person whose ideas about what to change and how should be listened to. Our top priority should be to preserve the progress that has been made already but people who are ignorant of history are often willing to destroy what we do have with the naive expectation that things can't get much worse.
What wonderful news. I'll be sure to alert the surviving Native Americans Indians and basically the entirety of the global south.
At a time when the planet is incinerating before our eyes, parroting "akshually things are great right now" isn't very brave.
Things are better than they have ever been for Native Americans and for the average person in the global south too.
Wow, simply off the charts arrogance.
Poverty has dropped dramatically, worldwide, since I was a kid and there was only 3.7 billion of us.
Just because the wealth disparity is radical, does not mean the poor are not better off.
Go talk to your grandparents, or great grandparents, about the Great Depression. Hell, I'm only 54 and I've seen some shit IRL. You kids don't even know what "poor" looks like. Hold onto your butts! Because you will see it, very soon.
Eat shit.