By what parameter do you measure your own life standing?
“When the Soviet authorities during the 1940s exhibited the 1940 movie of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ as evidence of how miserable the poor were in capitalist America, it backfired.
What amazed the Soviet audiences was that the Joad family fled starvation BY CAR.”
(Deirdre N. McCloskey, “Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World”, 2010)