I’m old enough to remember the 1950s. Anyone who tells you life was better then is talking garbage. And from the things my parents said, life was even worse before that. Perhaps this stuff comes from people who are failing to take advantage of all the great opportunities available right now.
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I wonder how many people saying life was better 50 years ago in those surveys were actually alive 50 years ago
That article was better 50 years ago.
The 1990s one might be my favorite. Just a hunch, but I feel like people were a bit more stressed in the 40s. For some reason.
One of my fave episodes of any podcast is about exactly this. bsky.app/profile/john...
One of the all-time episodes of an all-time podcast - Build for Tomorrow (formerly Pessimist’s Archive) - traces back to the points in time that people said were “the good old days” and finds when THEY said were “the good old days.” Repeat. overcast.fm/+AAgOxi0HIXc
We like to say that things were better before. But… when was that, exactly? We go back in time to find out — exploring every moment that people claimed was a golden age, and trying to understand why, ...
It’s been true for hundreds of years.
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I have rock-solid evidence that the very FIRST bit of writing, in Sumer, said "life was better 50 years ago".
That the last time my favorite baseball team was competitive so, I’ll agree.