<p>@enfieldacademy, We have better quality food and shelter than our ancestors, and our ancestors didn’t drive cars. I live in a small city in Texas. At my school, an upperclassman without a car is a rarity. By the beginning of sophomore year, I had bought a car with my own money, and I didn’t even have my license yet. I come from a very poor family, but we’re no longer seemingly poor when you compare us to even the most wealthy neolithic families. </p>
<p>I find it incredible that you would compare the quality of life of this decade to that of our ancestors in such a way as to call them both equal. You can work for 3 hours a day and survive. I can work for 8 and live. That’s the difference. That’s why we’re not all subsistence farmers anymore, because we’re not trying to subsist, we’re flourishing. </p>
<p>These are the most basic concepts you’re taught in a class such as an AP history. Specialization of labor, markets generating wealth, humanity pulling itself out of the darkness, into the warm lights of modernity, this is such a beautiful thing.</p>
<p>At this point, I’m fairly certain that you’re trolling, but in the case that you are being genuine, I have mixed feelings of disgust and pity toward you.</p>
<p>I’ll have to make a response to your thoughts on the impending doom of humanity later, or else I’m just going to end up making a joke about a James Bond villain and Friedrich Nietzsche to illustrate how laughable I think it is.</p>
<p>EDIT: Sorry to all, Jimbo covered it all well and put me to shame.</p>