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I guess you all in how you define the past versus today. Compared to just a year ago, it's worse. Compared to five ago, it's worse. Compared to twenty ago, it's worse. Compared to fourty ago, it's worse.

But I guess if you compare it to when we were all hanging out in trees, it's better.

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40 years ago - 1981-1982 was a very bad economic recession: https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/recession-of-19...

20 years ago - 2001 end of the Internet bubble, many people lost their jobs. 2003 the US was waisting a lot of government money on an unjustified war in Irak blaming them for 9-11. Bush unnecessarily destroyed a positive government budget for a war that solved nothing.

And 40 years ago a much larger part of the world still lived in poverty, communism was still a big thing ruining the lives of many, and don’t forget the stress of the Cold War. Also pollution in big cities like London or New York was a much bigger problem than today, and overall safety in US large cities was worse than today, lots of crime.

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