Perhaps I should have qualified this Topic by stating: 1960 was truly a golden age for the middle class and the upper-middle class in the USA. This cannot be overstated. These days, however, are arguably a Gilded-Age for the super-rich in the USA, or so most of them believe. Yet, this rarefied minority, the "super rich", in 2026, remain unaware that they are not as "well-off" as most of us were in the year 1960, in the USA. The super rich of today, one hears, are either living in bunkers, or are building bunkers...and what kind of life is that? Therefore, can anyone argue, logically, that almost anyone is better off today than they were in the year 1960? ========== We are not talking, here, about the billions who were raised out of abject poverty in the years following 1960, in places like China. And, this is really not the point. In 1960, the world population was 3 billion. At that time, both you and I lived in a better world, and better than the world, today, by almost any metric. I am speaking here about life in the USA, and in the year 1960. ================== If only the world population were 20 billion today.... Just imagine how many souls we could raise out of abject poverty....but.... Into what????
