Ok so I know indians who have lives as nice as mine or better and are in my field
This is exactly the point. The fact that many (though frankly, a small percentage of Indians as a whole) who have quite nice lives is a goddamn miracle. I’ll put it this way, those basics of life you were talking about; a home, plumbing, electricity, were not widespread in India until recently. As late as the mid 90s, about 70% of Indians didn’t have access to a household toilet. That number is now 10%, which, while an order of magnitude higher than the West, is an incredible gain.
It’s just mind bogglingly ignorant to claim that the rest of the world isn’t improving.
silent generation and greates generation in a city had running water and electricity for most of their lives. Yeah you could point to very rural greatest or it not being available when they were very young
And this is just silly. About half the population at the time was rural. Like, quality of life only matters if you live in a city? What the hell?
Edit: Link to the toilets in India, because they have data over time. It’s amazing and kind of beautiful to read about that sort of improvement in the lives of more than a billion people. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10373110/
This is exactly the point. The fact that many (though frankly, a small percentage of Indians as a whole) who have quite nice lives is a goddamn miracle. I’ll put it this way, those basics of life you were talking about; a home, plumbing, electricity, were not widespread in India until recently. As late as the mid 90s, about 70% of Indians didn’t have access to a household toilet. That number is now 10%, which, while an order of magnitude higher than the West, is an incredible gain.
It’s just mind bogglingly ignorant to claim that the rest of the world isn’t improving.
And this is just silly. About half the population at the time was rural. Like, quality of life only matters if you live in a city? What the hell?
Edit: Link to the toilets in India, because they have data over time. It’s amazing and kind of beautiful to read about that sort of improvement in the lives of more than a billion people. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10373110/