[SimplyUnknown]

Conditions may apply. If you're homeless or living in a country with ongoing war, disease or hunger the likelihood that you have to worry about any of these things goes up dramatically.

[Mordisquitos]

Indeed, but being homeless(*) or living in a country with ongoing war, disease or hunger is much less likely today than at any point in history. Not only that, but if you were to be suffering those circumstances, is there any period in the past in which you would be better off than you would be today?

    (*) for a modern understanding as to what constitutes homelessness

[gspr]

Of course. But the fact that the norm is that one doesn't have to worry about these things still is a huge improvement.

[Cthulhu_]

Indeed, and since you already called it the norm, we need to ensure that everybody gets to live that way.

[necovek]

A norm does not make it a minimum baseline: a norm is something that's prevalent or average.

Not disagreeing with your desire to make that the baseline, just with the terminology :)

[joshuacc]

The word norm can mean either “prevalent” or “the desired state of things.” So I’m assuming the previous comment was engaging in a bit of wordplay.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/norm

[iqanq]

We need to ensure how? Injecting money senselessly forever like we do in Africa, bringing war to those countries, infiltrating their governments to take them over...? These comments always perplex me.

[gspr]

Oh I agree with that.