Well, 100 years ago a poor person would face starving to death, freezing to death, and would have very little but the clothes on his back. Today, one of the biggest dangers of being poor is that you’re too fat, you probably carry around more computing power than 1955, have a widescreen television, a home computer, perhaps even a car, all things that wouldn’t have been in a poor person’s home 100 years ago.

Meanwhile those clothes are made by virtual slaves, the computer is built in a misery factory on the other side of the world, often with materials artesianally mined by actual child slaves, and even in our own countries we’re willfully accepting illegal migrants to drive down the wage of the common man, but everyone’s too scared to do anything about it. As a society we’re not brave enough to do anything – we’re joining the military at record low rates, politically everyone is rushing over their own feet to fall in line, and rather than finding new frontiers we’re flocking to the safety and comfort of cities.