system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: I dont believe that people are significantly happier in 21st century society than they were in the past without our technology and I dont believe in economic growth for the sake of growth.

Obviously 'the past' is a very wide criteria but I mean it generally. A child in Syria or a woman in Afghanistan or a family making a living picking through a 3rd world rubbish dump looking for raw materials to sell or a girl shining shoes in Vietnam or a prostitute in the U.S or a guy in canada who's skipping meals to be able to feed his wife and kids who's mortgage and credit card are slowly sending are slowing sending him bankrupt and his family onto the streets dont seem to have it anywhere near as good as a native American hunting and dancing and smoking weed and having sex hundreds of years ago. All cultures were still different and there was still a lot of suffering but 500 years and 5 iphones later there's still a fuckload of unnecessary suffering.
gpt
There has never been a higher standard of living, longer life expectancy, less hunger, less disease, and less war throughout the world than is currently the case.

That's not to say things can't be drastically improved, but on virtually any metric you care to name, things are better.