Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agoWe live in one of the best times in the history of humanity, but many are frustrated because the last generation had it better.message-squaremessage-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down151
arrow-up1-30arrow-down1message-squareWe live in one of the best times in the history of humanity, but many are frustrated because the last generation had it better.Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square43linkfedilink
minus-squareschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month ago So how is it the best times if the last generation had it better. The sentence was “one of the best”, not “the best”, so it’s not a contradiction at all.
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoUltimately my point was if the wealthy had it as relatively bad as the plebs the upset would be less. People don’t like sacrificing for people of much greater privelege having a bit more.
The sentence was “one of the best”, not “the best”, so it’s not a contradiction at all.
Ultimately my point was if the wealthy had it as relatively bad as the plebs the upset would be less. People don’t like sacrificing for people of much greater privelege having a bit more.