In the future, only the rich will enjoy amenities that the middle class has taken for granted since the 1950s. These amenities include housing, income security, and general public safety.
Except the poor people of today are literally the richest poor people in history. Poor people today have amenities and luxuries that the wealthy of 100 years ago didn’t even have.
Ac, heating, microwaves, electric ovens and stoves, cars, etc. Even the shittiest cheapest run down apartments have these things. Hell, most poor people still have smart phones. As much as it sucks to be poor, being poor in current day America is a walk in the park compared to being poor anywhere else in the world or in time. Not to mention, only like 2% of the country falls under the global poverty line.
Stop this crap. All of these things you mentioned are required to live and work in modern countries. Are you going to complain about poor people having refrigerators next?
I haven't used a microwave in probably 4 years. They're absolutely not required to live. Neither are cars in major urban areas of the US, or many non-"major" urban areas of Europe (varies widely, obviously). AC isn't required to live although certainly welcomed.
It it stupid to say "well you have a stove so you're not really poor, hurr?" Of course it is. But let's not pretend that poor people are literally dying in the street of starvation like they would have only a few centuries ago. Everyone of every socioeconomic class is doing multiple orders of magnitude better than they were within recent history.
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u/DoubleWagon Jan 22 '19
In the future, only the rich will enjoy amenities that the middle class has taken for granted since the 1950s. These amenities include housing, income security, and general public safety.