Main Points 9/19/11

• Mankind has been constantly improving itself
• Death rates for major diseases falling
• Physical Stature increasing
• Nutrition Rates increasing
• The Flynn Effect, increase in cognitive utilization, is on the rise
• Health care improvement
• These Improvements are significant
• Mankind's population growing
• World becoming richer
• strong correlation between richness and longer length of life
• People living longer
• American Living Standards (Past and Present)
• Workweeks are shorter 
• Vacations are more plentiful
• Commutes are longer
• Retirement did not exist
• Women were only 18% of workforce; now 50%
• Income
• Average Per Capita income 100 years ago $7000
• Average Per Capita income now $45,000
• Effort
• less needed today to buy more
• counter example
• piper-club plane cost $25,000 in our money
• costs $120,000 today
• Time dedicated to work has fallen
• lower than Europe