You think HN is becoming a parody... because people are starting to be concerned with income inequality?

This whole business about the poor having it better than ever is literally pap produced to assuage the conscience of white collar americans- only slightly more sophisticated than "how can you be miserable if you have a refrigerator?".

If you think books like Better Angels of Our Nature, or whatever else informs your idea that we're barreling towards a bright utopia, constitute some sort of vanguard in the Social Sciences you're just intellectually lazy.