Comment by clsdvd

Mainly all due to what is the spiritual successor to slave labor, not industrialization.

You can thank people dying in Chinese and African mines to extract the resources to build your planes and MRI machines.

You can thank the people working tirelessly until their hands are crippled in bengladesh to make the cheap clothes that make it seem to your western eyes that a poor person here can live a life of luxury. Those people are constantly invisibilised even as tragedies such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_Plaza_collapse

hit them and kills a thousand under your total westoid apathy.

You can thank the Chinese slave labor making iPhones and Macbooks at foxconn for your luxurious electronics being cheap enough for a western wallet. They have suicide prevention nets so that their precious slave labor doesn't die from jumping from their buildings. How amazing.

>the poor of today have access to things that even kings from hundreds of years ago couldn't even fathom

Indeed, the wealth that kings couldn't dream of hundreds of years ago, because kings back then didn't have the power a billionaire can wield today to pollute, enslave and ruin millions of lives at a scale that makes things like the Napoleon wars look like a footnote to history.

>All this with no job, and no care in the world.

This can only happen because the extreme wealth inequality of the world has divided entire countries into classes of people. You are blind to the reality of the humans you are exploiting.