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How is life today worse than the past?
I'm a little tired and confused hearing people talk about how much better life was 40 years ago or 100 years ago.
Is it really? Typically they point to the fact they worked less, got more, but DO they? In the past, most jobs were labor, today, most jobs are white collar. In the past, people had less access to refrigeration, families did not have 2 cars each.
Aren't we simply demanding more today, keeping up with the Joneses? If we wanted the lifestyle of 1970, or 1910, wouldn't we be spending only a fraction of our income? Think about how many items in your home were not even available and possible back then, if you didn't buy them, would you die? Or just be uncomfortable?
How has standard of living declined?
People work less in coal mining or oil drilling, more in offices wearing suits.
People have technology to save them time, and money.
How do you measure standard of living to say it has declined?
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- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
It's a tough question, but life was a lot simpler, people were more social and active than they are now, and were happy with basic amusements, but now that we live in a consumerist society that revolves around the internet, we've become a lot more cut-off from society, and in turn more anti-social. We have more create comforts now, but this seems to be making quality of life worse, considering this gives people less reason to exercise, and therefore gain unhealthy amounts of weight, we also live in a very vain society, where looks are everything, and personality isn't cared about.
To sum it all up, people get worse as time goes on.
- 9 years ago
The standard of living has declined or at least is not improving at the rate it used to do 40 years ago.
Generally it takes more work now than it used to. I think many people work longer hours now.
Naturally now we have a recession on top of everything. The home mortgage crisis and cost of war has caused a decline in the US economy. It should stabilize.
