It all depends on what you value. We didn’t even have a phone, you had one but lived on a quarter of an acre, had we lived on a quarter acre I would have really felt poor. What would the average person have now if not for government redistribution schemes? This nation as a whole has twenty trillion dollars of debt that we did not have back then. I don’t dispute that we are better off in some ways but we are far worse off in many ways. I won’t bother to list them all, you either understand or you don’t.