Better than you? Worse than you? 3.5 times the median in developing world countries?
But isn't that a wonderful illustration of the mindset of modern society?
If we look at all the things that really fuck us and our environment up are they not all products of the system we live in?
Alienation (from each other, from the land we live on, from the production of our food, from government...), pollution, lack of community, overpopulated cities, bad food, bad medicine... Yeah it's worse for people in other countries but that's because they pay a higher price than we do.
The other thing is that it's not necessarily about going back to some pre-agrarian society but about where we could be or could have been if the 'big mistake' had not been made or were now recognised.
I suppose in a way I'm undecided but I do sympathise with zhao's position.