Please also read accounts of people who wrote about the ordinary people&#x27;s living and working conditions <i>at the same time</i>, such as George Orwell&#x27;s Wigam Pier, many essays or Down and out in Paris and London, and you&#x27;d be amazed at how far better we live now.<p>Compared to that time (1920s, 1930s), people today (in the developed world) really DO NOT have to work so hard and the surplus is huge.