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SV_BubbleTimetoday at 6:49 AM1 replyview on HN

Your grandparents almost certainly had siblings or knew of their friends siblings dying from now completely preventable diseases.

The quality, safety, comfort of low income housing in the United States is exceptional in historical terms. The fact that you CAN be anything you want is an unheard of concept even 60 years ago.

The worst cars on the market today are modern marvels of engineering compared to decades ago. Let alone throughout the history of the country.

College, lol, you literally have a secured loan to do study whatever you want with absolutely no required direction from anyone else… to receive the worlds knowledge if you want it.

Oh, things are more expensive? Yes, they’re massively higher quality and larger.

You’re mad about things, OK. They’re objectively the best they’ve ever been. This is indisputable, but again, I get that you WANT to be mad.


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diogenescynictoday at 12:59 PM

Okay Ben Shapiro, but you skipped an entire generation to make your argument and are ignoring what's happened in the last 5/10/15/30 years.

I don't WANT to be mad and that shows you're arguing in bad faith. I want to stop checking my bank balance before I buy toilet paper and paper towels. Life wasn't like this until very recently... We're destroying the middle class and making home ownership virtually unaffordable. The average first time home buyer is 40. The economy is not healthy and has not been this disconnected from the stock market since probably 2007.