[blfr]

Is it? We have piled on tons of new years of education, are we that much better off as a society, more cultured than, say, the French in the 50s when most people had like 8 classes under their belt?

[parineum]

> are we that much better off as a society ... than ... the French in the 50s

Everyone in the western world is, including the French.

> are we ... more cultured than, say, the French in the 50s

That's a pretty meaningless question to me.