I agree that time has changed and the amount of opportunities have grown exponentially, so has the population. It's a dog-eat-dog world out here, everyone wants a shot at greatness because we believe it is achievable, unlike the medieval period where people were slaving away their entire lives because they did not have a choice. Now we do have a choice and that comes with disappoints, especially when we cannot achieve the things we deem possible and withing our reach. In a nutshell, there are changes and improvement in terms of the opportunities available to people in this era but it's accompanied with its own challenges.
Speaking about information, I totally agree with you when you talked about consuming the right information. I even spoke about this in a post of mine. There are lot of things out here on the cyberspace. Information is moving at an unprecedented level. Unfortunately a significant part of these information are worthless and it's imperative that one guides their mind. A lot seem to make sense but in actuality they don't.
Lastly, we all have the capacity to be great and some of the challenges we face current in terms of allocating scarce resource will be addressed adequately as humanity progress.
Oh yeah, I'm with you there. The opportunities come with their own challenges, it's just that it's a big step from generations ago.
That's why I called it having "a fighting chance" instead of "a chance". So yeah, I totally agree.
And yeah, we need to learn how to prioritize time of information as you said, that's a challenge on its own. :P
P.S: I saw you joined steemit recently so I'd like to wish you a nice welcome to this awesome platform.
thank you very much, I'm enjoying the exprience.