/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15884747
>Income is not synonymous with quality of life
Schoolchildren like yourself who have all of their bills paid for them by daddy can make statements like that because you're not the one who has to earn an income.
>disease rates have decreased
Is that why the entire planet needed to get vaccinated for a global pandemic recently?
Something like that has never happened before.
>food availability has increased
Is that why we're all being told to eat bugs and estrogen beans?
>luxuries and comforts are more accessible
false, personal savings rates are at or near all time lows, savings and disposable income are both were money for luxuries come from, the current rate is less than 20% of all time highs.
in 1970 the price of gold was $39/oz and the minimum wage was $1.45, so a week's work bought nearly an ounce and a half of gold
gold is currently $2000/oz, the minimum wage would need to be $75 to buy an ounce of that, the minimum wage in 1970 was the equivalent of $150,000 a year today, thats how much worse off people are as a result of the """"progress"""" you and your ilk are constantly bragging about.