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by onlyrealcuzzo 999 days ago
Do you think it's worse to be median in the US now than it was 50 years ago or 200 years ago? Or 600 years ago?

Do you think it's worse to be in the bottom 10%?

It's definitely not worse to be in the top 10%.

So where are we failing? Because I don't think we're failing anywhere on any medium-term horizon.

If you think we're failing from a short time ago, there's always ups and downs - but not a big reason to think the trend is reversing.
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bloak 999 days ago
Those are difficult questions. Are we talking about how "happy" people are? That's the goal for some people, and an official goal for Bhutan according to its constitution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness). But I don't think we know very well how to measure it accurately.

It has been claimed that the move from hunter-gathering to agriculture brought a lot of misery while improving efficiency according to economic measures.

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