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all2 · 2021-09-02 22:47:06

Will you expand on the comparison to half a century ago?

earthboundkid | karma 6376 | avg karma 2.89 · | 2021-03-04 16:53:16

My comparison period was 1900 to 1920.

tus666 | karma 784 | avg karma 2.15 · | 2022-01-28 15:14:54

What happened half a century ago?

drfuchs | karma 4160 | avg karma 6.98 · | 2019-05-03 15:26:32+00:00

I think you mean “half a century ago”.

auggierose | karma 4751 | avg karma 1.77 · | 2021-11-13 05:11:08

Half a decade? Or half a century?

xname | karma 90 | avg karma 0.62 · | 2014-06-15 02:04:33

1901~2000? Does this comparison make sense?

Maakuth | karma 3945 | avg karma 6.83 · | 2024-06-02 14:42:55

And we did, half a century earlier!

jlgreco | karma 18247 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2012-07-17 07:35:32+00:00

Quite so. The differences between 2000 and 1912 are hard to truely fathom. I don't know how you could possibly attempt to predict at that sort of timescale. Even a decade would be pushing it as far as I am concerned.

SoftwareMaven | karma 11915 | avg karma 3.72 · | 2015-06-29 21:31:06

I'm not sure that is objectively true. This is worth a watch to compare the first half of the 20th century with the time since: https://vimeo.com/128373915

jm__87 | karma 410 | avg karma 1.5 · | 2018-05-10 03:05:44+00:00

Sure... but do you think it really makes sense to compare today to 1760 or 1860?

satvikpendem | karma 10472 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2023-04-20 02:22:29

Ask someone from a hundred years ago how it's going today and you'll have your answer.

burke | karma 3472 | avg karma 4.0 · | 2011-04-09 07:19:19+00:00

Collectively, as a society, compared to that of, say, 1914.

burke | karma 3472 | avg karma 4.0 · | 2016-11-04 18:05:38+00:00

It may not be as good as it was 50 years ago, but there's a case to be made that it's nearly as good as it ever was prior to 1900.

mod | karma 3866 | avg karma 1.75 · | 2022-09-29 20:10:44

I think 100 years ago the metrics for good vs bad would have been different, fwiw.

drewmate | karma 572 | avg karma 3.25 · | 2020-02-14 03:40:09

I think in terms of change, not all centuries are created equal. All things considered, I think the century from 1870-1970 saw more rapid change than any other in history (including 1920-2020). Planet money did a piece the other week about this idea and how economic growth seems to have slowed down never to return to its 20th century levels.

If this idea is true, those in the 1920s share more with us (familiarity with cars, mass media, urbanization) than those just 50 years prior.

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Kinnard | karma 1693 | avg karma 1.45 · | 2016-01-27 21:31:04

Really? This century like within the succeeding hundred years or that century like the 20th Century? I'd be curious to learn more.

Tinyyy | karma 644 | avg karma 2.36 · | 2015-01-16 12:30:46+00:00

So like … better than a hundred years ago?

eru | karma 30335 | avg karma 1.29 · | 2014-01-27 02:52:40

Yes, but grand parent said it's all going in the same direction. Ie 18th century was better than 19th century was better than 20th century.

xapata | karma 5059 | avg karma 1.56 · | 2016-08-28 18:09:58+00:00

Is it different today from 50 or 100 years ago? Doesn't seem so different to me.

CyberDildonics | karma 3006 | avg karma 0.57 · | 2020-10-13 02:08:55+00:00

You are talking about things that happened 90 years ago compared to things that happened 15 years ago.