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minus-squareHauilinkfedilinkarrow-up12·9 months agoI think everyone is living this. You‘re not fucked because you live this but you have the brains to be aware of it.
minus-squareZipitydew@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agoAnd we live in a time and place where most of our base needs are easily met. Mind has far more time to ponder.
minus-squareHauilinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·9 months agoCompared to the middle ages, yes. But we‘re not better off than in the 60s I believe.
minus-squareRodeo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoMiddle class white people in America aren’t, but pretty much the entire rest of the world is.
minus-squareHauilinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoCan you give an example for that? I‘d like to understand what you refer to.
minus-squareRodeo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoThe quality of life worldwide has steadily been increasing since industrialization. The quality of life of middle class white Americans has remained pretty much unchanged since the end of the second world war. Im not going to get examples, but that’s what my point was.
minus-squareHauilinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·9 months agoI‘m sorry but this is not correct. People used to live in one worker households and got by. The housing prices (only thing I could find) in the US has tripled since the sixties which is an increase of 7% pa. GDPs are rising fast but wages are not keeping up. Here‘s a source for europe: https://www.ft.com/content/0a245c28-6cc3-11e9-80c7-60ee53e6681d It’s not like poor white people are having ouwie now. The 1% are 10000%ing their income while the rest goes home empty.
minus-squareRodeo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoYou’re talking about incomes, I was talking about quality of life. You don’t need to convince me we’re underpaid. You would need to convince me that our quality of life is worse than our parents was, though.
Living this rn
I think everyone is living this. You‘re not fucked because you live this but you have the brains to be aware of it.
And we live in a time and place where most of our base needs are easily met. Mind has far more time to ponder.
Compared to the middle ages, yes. But we‘re not better off than in the 60s I believe.
Middle class white people in America aren’t, but pretty much the entire rest of the world is.
Can you give an example for that? I‘d like to understand what you refer to.
The quality of life worldwide has steadily been increasing since industrialization.
The quality of life of middle class white Americans has remained pretty much unchanged since the end of the second world war.
Im not going to get examples, but that’s what my point was.
I‘m sorry but this is not correct. People used to live in one worker households and got by. The housing prices (only thing I could find) in the US has tripled since the sixties which is an increase of 7% pa.
GDPs are rising fast but wages are not keeping up. Here‘s a source for europe: https://www.ft.com/content/0a245c28-6cc3-11e9-80c7-60ee53e6681d
It’s not like poor white people are having ouwie now. The 1% are 10000%ing their income while the rest goes home empty.
You’re talking about incomes, I was talking about quality of life.
You don’t need to convince me we’re underpaid. You would need to convince me that our quality of life is worse than our parents was, though.