Originally Posted by Lenny2

I agree with the thread starter. This is something I think about often.

Kings and Pharoahs and Emperors from 500+ years ago would have paid an enormous fortune to live the kind of life a middle class person lives today.

We can fly to the other end of the world in a day. People spend $200 million on a movie just to entertain us for 2 hours.
From a historical perspective our lifestyle is pretty awesome.