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Do you actually have any evidence of this?
No. It's posed this way to generate thought and discussion, not to prove a claim or opinion.
The poor a century ago didn't have cars,air conditioning, heating, refrigeration, food stamps, welfare, good public education, cellphones with government life line services,TVs, and many other things.
Nor were they aware that they lacked these things, because these things did not exist. We're not pouting today that we don't all have our own personal robot that does all our chores for us, because they largely do not exist. Maybe this speaks to why (I'm presuming) the poor today are more miserable (psychologically, I mean) despite their increased standard of living, than they were a long time ago.
People in other countries must be screaming that is not poor. Your idea of miserable must be different than ours
State of mind vs. standard of living. I'm taking about state of mind. A middle class person can be psychologically tortured about his/her normal life, and a person in poverty can be happy-go-lucky and at peace with his/her surroundings. When I said "miserable" I was not implying "worse living conditions."
I think it's a fair generalization that the poor today are more psychologically distressed about it than the poor a century ago were, and I'm asking why.
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