> A poor person today lives better than a king of old.
This is dangerous bullshit. A poor person who spends their life working long hours on menial work where they have no agency is not better off than medieval nobility just because they have cheap entertainment available.
A lot of "poor people" stress about providing enough food for their families or losing their homes. Not something that nobility ever had to worry about.
A lot of people today live better than medieval kings; you and I probably do. But our society does a shitty job of distributing the bounties of technological miracles, except in superficial ways.
This is dangerous bullshit. A poor person who spends their life working long hours on menial work where they have no agency is not better off than medieval nobility just because they have cheap entertainment available.
A lot of "poor people" stress about providing enough food for their families or losing their homes. Not something that nobility ever had to worry about.
A lot of people today live better than medieval kings; you and I probably do. But our society does a shitty job of distributing the bounties of technological miracles, except in superficial ways.