Electric lighting, Air conditioning, refrigeration, vacuums, washers/dryers, modern toilets + sewage systems, grocery stores, GPS guided + Air-conditioned combine harvesters.
This very moment I have my Instapot cooking, the dishwasher washing, the washer washing, the dryer drying, as I lie in bed (which I bought instead of made) cooled by a fan. I just took a drink from a water bottle I didnt have to whittle by hand. Life is, in this beautiful instant, pretty good.
While you’re doing that, ask them if the food bank line is preferable to literal famine because the crop their family spent 14 houes a day to dig by hand failed.
Thanks bro I just told them all that their life is way better than a 16th century peasant. They were stoked. Then four of them OD’d on fentanyl and fucking died.
This graph is useless. It’s bullshit spewed by the likes of Pinker, and you know why it’s bullshit? Because it measures poverty as “wage earned below a certain level”. It ignores access to goods and services outside payment, i.e., it ignores all pre-capitalist forms of production.
It’s as I measured poverty in “grain grown by the mean person per year” (not average total per capita, but mean person). Nowadays nobody grows grain, 200 years ago everyone did, the graph would show skyrocketing poverty.
Most production in pre-capitalist societies was for self-consumption or for the immediate community. This graph simply doesn’t take this into account.
You’re missing my point entirely. I’m saying the world is a much better place because of technology, and OP is a fool for implying it hasn’t improved anyone’s lives.
Here’s infant mortality, another “happy” chart showing how technology vastly improves human lives! It’s not all doom and gloom, life isn’t as bad as the chronically online make out if you look at how bad it was!
Literally all those things you mentioned are 50+ year old technology, yes, even GPS. Amazing that you can’t come up with a single thing made in the past 50 years that improved our lives, literally proving the post of the point.
This is silly, off the top of my head:
Electric lighting, Air conditioning, refrigeration, vacuums, washers/dryers, modern toilets + sewage systems, grocery stores, GPS guided + Air-conditioned combine harvesters.
This very moment I have my Instapot cooking, the dishwasher washing, the washer washing, the dryer drying, as I lie in bed (which I bought instead of made) cooled by a fan. I just took a drink from a water bottle I didnt have to whittle by hand. Life is, in this beautiful instant, pretty good.
Great, I’ll let the people in the line outside the food bank know that things are actually pretty sweet right now.
While you’re doing that, ask them if the food bank line is preferable to literal famine because the crop their family spent 14 houes a day to dig by hand failed.
Thanks bro I just told them all that their life is way better than a 16th century peasant. They were stoked. Then four of them OD’d on fentanyl and fucking died.
“Sure glad I don’t live in medieval Europe, guys!”
I answered the topic “has technology ever improved working hours, conditions, leisure time?” with examples of how it objectively has.
Can you explain your reasoning otherwise; or are we just here to have an doomer circlejerk about the existence of poverty instead?
This graph is useless. It’s bullshit spewed by the likes of Pinker, and you know why it’s bullshit? Because it measures poverty as “wage earned below a certain level”. It ignores access to goods and services outside payment, i.e., it ignores all pre-capitalist forms of production.
It’s as I measured poverty in “grain grown by the mean person per year” (not average total per capita, but mean person). Nowadays nobody grows grain, 200 years ago everyone did, the graph would show skyrocketing poverty.
Most production in pre-capitalist societies was for self-consumption or for the immediate community. This graph simply doesn’t take this into account.
Capitalist bullshit
You’re missing my point entirely. I’m saying the world is a much better place because of technology, and OP is a fool for implying it hasn’t improved anyone’s lives.
Here’s infant mortality, another “happy” chart showing how technology vastly improves human lives! It’s not all doom and gloom, life isn’t as bad as the chronically online make out if you look at how bad it was!
Literally all those things you mentioned are 50+ year old technology, yes, even GPS. Amazing that you can’t come up with a single thing made in the past 50 years that improved our lives, literally proving the post of the point.