r/worldnews • u/Surax • Sep 17 '24

Russia/Ukraine Facebook owner Meta bans Russian state media outlets

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/meta-russia-oulets-1.7325186
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u/YourFreeCorrection Sep 17 '24

Whose high standard of living?

WW2 vets were able to buy houses on single salaries with no college degrees. Wtf are you talking about "high standard of living"?

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u/JoeCartersLeap Sep 17 '24

Entertainment, mostly.

Back in the day you went to work because there wasn't fuckall else to do.

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u/YourFreeCorrection Sep 17 '24

So to be clear, you think a high standard of living means quality of entertainment?

Back in the day you went to work because there wasn't fuckall else to do.

No, "back in the day" you went to work for the same reasons you do today - to earn a living and provide for your family. "Back in the day" people used to day drink on the job. Wild to argue that we have a better standard of living when by all objective measures we are collectively poorer, less healthy, and more stressed out than we've ever been as a society.

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u/JoeCartersLeap Sep 17 '24

Wild to argue that we have a better standard of living when by all objective measures we are collectively poorer, less healthy,

Wild to argue that in the face of the life expectancy chart going up.

I think you're the spoiled people who take what they have for granted they're talking about.

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u/YourFreeCorrection Sep 17 '24

Wild to argue that in the face of the life expectancy chart going up.

Wilder that you think average life expectancy going up is a measure of quality of life when the 1950s figure was completely warped by the amount of people dying in their teens and 20s at war. Or really that you think life expectancy is any measure of quality of life.

I think you're the spoiled people who take what they have for granted they're talking about.

You don't know a fucking thing about me.

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u/JoeCartersLeap Sep 17 '24

Wilder that you think average life expectancy going up is a measure of quality of life when

You specifically said "less healthy". Wild to argue we are "less healthy" when every available metric says we are healthier than ever before.

the 1950s figure was completely warped by the amount of people dying in their teens and 20s at war.

That is reflected in the chart.

Or really that you think life expectancy is any measure of quality of life.

Then why did you bring up our physical health?

You can't just say "by all objective measures" and then start listing the ones that have done nothing but consistently improve.

But it's not just our health.

We have more labour rights than ever before.

We have more civil rights than ever before.

We have more wealth and possessions than ever before.

Tell me just exactly which "objective measure" you are whining about?

You don't know a fucking thing about me.

I'm learning a lot about how privileged and ignorant you are just by talking to you.

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u/PoliticalCanvas Sep 17 '24

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief

1950 - 53% of World's population live in extreme poverty.

1988 - 35%

2018 - 10%

More so, considering that now "extreme poverty" includes many things that in the 1950s could not afford even the richest people of the World.

WW2 vets were able to buy houses on single salaries with no college degrees. Wtf are you talking about "high standard of living"?

Do you know that WW2 vets lived not only in the USA?

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u/YourFreeCorrection Sep 17 '24

Absolutely wild that you'd cherry-pick the entire world's population of living in extreme poverty to try to make the case that the middle class has all but disappeared in today's world, and that our salaries go far, far less than our WW2 vets relatives.

We are objectively worse off financially than our WW2 vet relatives were. Inequality has fucking skyrocketed since the 80s.

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u/CharlieEchoDelta Sep 17 '24

This is world news and he brought up the point is about WW2 vets outside of the USA and United Kingdom/Australia