Lukewarm take:
I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.
Zach Weinersmith
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2026-09-15 12:09:40 UTC
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