Is the present moment in time the best ever to be alive in so far?

@Peaceful We can also learn from the past to make the future better. If at any previous time we were better than we are now, maybe we can bring back those conditions for an even better tomorrow?

@Dobsdobs no question! But how many people do you know that feel guilt of their past and stress about their future? How many do you know that just BE. Live in the moment? That is all I mean.

@Dobsdobs Maybe.

There could be something said how the world has become better in one place, and not another. Yet, the quality is measured by subjectivity.

And about the meter? (metric) It can be said, affluence is recognized by the ability to buy an Apple Iphone now: last I checked material value doesn't resemble happiness and may even lead one astray from happiness.

I'm not arguing we are living easier lives than who predated us.

@SW-User While affluence itself is not an indicator of happiness, no happiness is possible without a basic level of affluence. Nothing in excess is good - nether affluence nor the lack of it.

While on one side of the world some people have an excess of affluence, on the other some people have an excess of the lack of it. And usually, both of these can be found on the same side of the world.

My thought is, can we measure when, historically, this perpetual natural imbalance was at its least level of variance?

@Dobsdobs Why the measure of the 'least'? If 'we' have 'affluence' and have a culture of people (likely, good - I'm trying to leave out the moral pejorative) doing 'good' towards who they feel need do so because it makes themselves feel good about themselves?

It does display some level of compassion there in that they do see recognize hardship.

I don't understand why this question is not asked more of this time and social media.