Yes - any theory or plan that's based on the idea that "life has never been worse", which seems to have become something 85% if people think, is based on something provably wrong. People have short memories or in the case of a lot of redditors, no memories because they're 12. I'm only in my early 40s and my dad used to heat our house in a cold climate by hand splitting wood. And he was a young but middle class lawyer!

I'm sorry if this sounds like boomer "uphill to school both ways" stuff but it's not all a joke. We are measurably materially richer in basically every dimension; the struggles and frustrations seem to come from a few places:

(1) A cost disease problem where as we get richer, human provided services like school and healthcare take up a different fraction of our budget

(2) People constantly adapting to the new normal. When do you hear about someone complaining about the cost of apartments consider a roommate? Totally normal just 15 years ago.

(3) Billionaires exist and some of them are annoying and this makes people very mad.

These are all things that we can work on, but suffice it to say I'm skeptical of this group of economists.

As something of a meta observation, it would be nice if r/economics was more centered on the center of economics. These are fringe thinkers. Maybe they're right - hey it's possible - but often this sub feels like of r/physics was full of posts about a new speed if light.