[NiklasMort]

There are so many issues with this comment (I appreciate it though, wish we could have a full conversation about this). a) If you'd do some research you'd see that "100y ago" actually was often times better b) Getting off this planet? To where? Colonize Mars? To do what exactly? The category to that jeopardy answer is: Things that won't happen for 200

[kbenson]

> If you'd do some research you'd see that "100y ago" actually was often times better

Again, better is relative. If you consider child mortality[1] and dying from sickness important in assessing whether people are better off or not, then those are values that negatively affect the assessment of 100 years ago.

If you consider some other values important (I'm not going to belittle you by assuming I know what you are thinking of, the only ones to that come to mind for me right now seem irrelevant), then that would affect the assessment of 100 years ago positively.

Personally, I think there are far more indicators, and far more important indicators, that affect the assessment of 100 years ago negatively.

1: https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality