I see this effect anecdotally as well. No one I talk with (outside my readers) can believe that by most metrics…life is better than it used to be.
However, this is not true for my friends in developing countries. They have seen enormous changes and improvements in living standards in their lives.
I believe that many in the “West” are so far removed from the “explosive growth” period of progress that they only have a rose-filtered vision of the past.
I see this effect anecdotally as well. No one I talk with (outside my readers) can believe that by most metrics…life is better than it used to be.
However, this is not true for my friends in developing countries. They have seen enormous changes and improvements in living standards in their lives.
I believe that many in the “West” are so far removed from the “explosive growth” period of progress that they only have a rose-filtered vision of the past.