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[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As opposed to all those other times in the past when workers were better off than they are now...

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

We had it great for a very short period, and only for a few of us, in human history. And we're still better off than anytime before that.

But yes, we could be far better off than we are now.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's a great deal of room for improvement, but I think that a person who doesn't realize that right now things are better than they have ever been is not a person whose ideas about what to change and how should be listened to. Our top priority should be to preserve the progress that has been made already but people who are ignorant of history are often willing to destroy what we do have with the naive expectation that things can't get much worse.

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

right now things are better than they have ever been

What wonderful news. I'll be sure to alert the surviving Native Americans Indians and basically the entirety of the global south.

At a time when the planet is incinerating before our eyes, parroting "akshually things are great right now" isn't very brave.

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