Many things in life are becoming better and easier to obtain today than in the past. One thing that has increased greatly is life expectancy. People are living much longer today than in the past. One plus to this is that because there is improved health care, when people die, it happens much quicker than before. There is no extended period of suffering in old age. One bad thing about this is that more people get diseases and cancer because they are living longer so it more likely to happen. Luckily there has been a 2% decrease in each of the last 10 years in cancer diagnoses. The amount of people with aids has also decreased in the last few years. The only health problem that has had a mentionable increase is diabetes and obesity. Both of these relate to bad diets.
A good thing that has happened is that the health gap between black and whites has decreased over the past several years. People have been eating more over the last few hundred years as well. The average person in 1700 at about 2,095 calories a day. In 1989 the average amount eaten was 3,149. Many tests have been done on humans over time. It has showed that as time progresses, our full physical statue has been increasing. The average height, bone density, muscle mass as well as other things have all increased. We've also been getting smarter over time.
We learned that the formula for standard deviation is when 2/3 of a group falls in a certain range. Health is factored into GDP. The increase of health care has come from new findings in medical research.
The richer we are, the higher the increase of value of improvements in health and life expectancy. The more money people have, the more it matters to them to be healthy. This is because they can afford the pricer foods that are healthy as well as having a gym membership. There is generally a higher life expectancy with people who have more money as well. The only country to decrease their life expectancy with raised income is Russia.
The recent recession is called the mancession. This is because most of the people who have lost their jobs are men.
The amount of people with cancer has increased over time. This is because people are living longer and cancer doesn't develop in most people until they are 65 or older. People did not live to 65 before to get cancer. The top 10 things that kill people today would not be in the top 10 things from 1900. This is because the rate that people die from these things would be really low compared to the rate that people died from various things in 1900. Every death is caused by the same thing. Lack of oxygen to the brain.
Education has increased over time as well. In 1900 the average education grade was 8th. Today it is 13th. Income has increased along with it. The average person made equivalent to $7,000 in 1900. Today it is $40,000.
Living standars is what it takes for people to get what they want. There is an amazing reduction in work effort to get goods and services that we want. This improvement doesn't factor that products this year are better than products form last year. We care about the cost of services. The cost of what it takes to get the services isn't important to the consumer. The standard living is 25x greater than it was in 1900. Rizzo thinks it's much greater than this. Technology makes us richer than this with more access to information. 1 hour of work with pay twice as great as the minimum wage will earn us reading light for one year. We are 43,000 x better today in regards to light. Not everything is considered cheaper today that it was in the past. Piper airplanes are much more expensive than they were in 1950.
People have more leisure time today than in the past. We have 3x more leisure time today than people did in 1880. Half the time at a full time job is spent not working. We could be much more productive if we were more focused on work rather than being distracted by things like ESPN and Facebook.
In 1790 75% of peoples income was spent on food. This is much less today in part due to a much cheaper cost of production with advancements in agriculture and cooking techniques.
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