People also don't understand that the baseline was so much less comfortable. Even the extremely wealthy by that eras standards did not have 1/10th the comfort I have as a lower middle class college dropout. They will never take air conditioning from me while I breathe.
What the extremely wealthy want is for us all to accept the old fashioned baseline as "just the way it is" while they consume wealth black hole style.You can feel it in the right's rhetoric: prepare for a rollback to a world of physical suffering (with all the productivity of a modern worker).
this is a really good point.
My wifi router died this morning, and I'm wandering around the house with just my phone and thinking "is this what death is like?"
No, it's worse than death. People accuse me of being a Treatler but I'm Treatrick Henry
Truth
My grandparent’s house in CT was built in the 1930s and earned an architectural award for being designed to effectively catch breeze and move it through the house to help keep it cool in summer. AC didn’t exist.