You are the only person I&#x27;ve ever heard saying that &#x27;in 1916 they had it easy&#x27;.<p>I agree that if we are facing new challenges 100 years in the future, they will seem critical whereas the solved challenges of our present will appear solved and therefore not as challenging as they seemed at the time.  This seems tautological.<p>I don&#x27;t see how this is informative, or different from a platitude like &quot;our problems don&#x27;t seem so bad after we&#x27;ve solved them&quot;.