alt Hacker NewsPeople forgot or simply don't realize how much better life was just 3-4 decades ago (in terms of nutrition, access to knowledge, clean water, material wealth, housing costs, tuition costs, healthcare costs, jobs).
In advanced western countries that is. If you compare Nigeria from 2000 to Nigeria today, sure, maybe...
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shlant • last Friday at 1:15 PM
> People forgot or simply don't realize how much better life was just 3-4 decades ago
Are you just saying this thinking no one will ask you to back it up with data? Care to quantify what "so much better" actually means?
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What? Access to knowledge was better 3-4 decades ago? You're telling me that people had better access to knowledge in 1986 than they do today?
Infant mortality was 10.4 per 1,000 live births in 1986 in the US. It was 5.5 I'm 2023.
Life expectancy was 74. Now it's 78.
The crime rate peaked in the US in 1991.
Life isn't perfect now. Housing needs to be a lot more affordable, for one. University costs in the US are insane, for another.
But to paint this as no progress? Come on.