[ido]

Both the average and mean UK citizen is unambiguously better off today than whenever the golden age of the empire was.

[crims0n]

I don’t doubt that, it’s just crazy for me to think that less than 100 years ago they were six times the size of the Roman Empire, and the dominant superpower on earth.

[archagon]

Why is ruthlessly dominating other countries some sort of virtue?

[crims0n]

What did I say that made you think it is?

[ravenical]

"how far a country can fall"?

[crims0n]

I guess it could mean that… but in this context it means decline, same as “Fall of the Roman Empire”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empi...

[kingleopold]

this is a flawed logic. Because almost any country is better than decades ago. you need to compare BE to top countries now and places in ranking, to see if it's better. UK, is it better than Norway, Switzerland or Japan? No. Not even top 10 in any metric, cleearly huge fall. Only top level thing left is universities and scientific research.