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I mean, we were talking about it here: #1599758
not many people are feeling the progress in the last 20 years
sure, the new technology is impressive, but I'm not convinced we're better off
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Slightly different things:
- Being unappreciative of the miracle that is a modern economy, can only result from a total lack of comprehension about what the counterfactual would be like.
- Not feeling like recent changes are improving your life personally, can obviously be completely reasonable.
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...and in that wedge, human progress type peeps lose themselves. When someone says the second one, they hear the first
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Even that is fucking amazing though and big entitled babies whine all day about living in the most prosperous society in human history.
What I always want to emphasize is that there's a ceiling to how much room for improvement there is. If you can't operate that government program for less than the deadweight loss, then there is no room for improvement via government intervention.