Notice how everything you listed was happening at that time?
I'm saying the future looks bleak cause all we hear is how bleak it will be. Whens the last time you heard someone say something good about how the future will be?
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Any midde-class person in 2015 North America who feels sorry about their lot in life is an idiot lacking any sense of perspective. 99 per cent of the people who have walked the planet would trade places with you in an instant. By almost any standard, this is the best time to be alive. Of course, people who want to feel sorry for themselves won't believe that. But then they would be miserable in any time or place in history.
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And I agree with you. We are living in the best time in the history of humanity. I said it in my post. I just think it's funny that people are shocked that we're pessimistic about the future when every single person is telling us to be.