Which of the factors listed have improved? Note the explicit acknowledgement of these measures done in context, meaning in relative terms. Measuring wealth in absolute terms is unhelpful.
Also, social mobility has been declining for decades. Your personal experience is not the norm.
Quality of housing, for example. We now live in much bigger and better houses than in my parent's era. Hours of work needed to purchase necessities - most of the necessities of my parent's era are easily available today at negligable cost. Health care has vastly improved, education is more available than ever before, life expectancy has gone up, incidence of disease has gone down, infrastructure is vastly better, economic and political stability is way up [1]. Environmental quality is as well.
If you want to measure these things relative to some set of moving goalposts, be my guest. As I said, "the goalposts might be moving faster than the economy". But then discuss moving goalposts rather than "your parent's standard of living", which implies the fixed standard of living that my parent's enjoyed.
[1] In my parent's era, we had a 2 million member strong terrorist group assaulting random civilians on a regular basis.
You argumentatively, literally interpreted VLM's statement
"At least in the USA there are fewer jobs every year."
While ignoring his obviously correct broader point about rising requirements for job applicants.
I refuted your pedant by pointing out that while there are more jobs, you probably need a degree to get a well paying job.
Then you ignored my question
"Would you take a job that didn't require a degree? How much would you expect to earn?"
and proceeded to pendant about something else, purposefully misunderstanding (or reinterpreting) commonly accepted terminology.
So, please, forgive me, I can't figure out what you're arguing about. Please repeat which broadly accepted obvious point you originally disagreed with (this time).
