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  The Way It Is
 
Thesis
"Never before in the history of mankind have so many low-caliber, rude, offensive, lazy, arrogant, under-educated people populated earth."
Retort
You may state that ~ ~ there have always been about the same quantity of them.  That is, relative to the entire population.
Yes, probably about the same percentage of all people +- ~% exist at any given period.
However, there are ambient variables which enforce the inhibitions or promote the freedom of many of the nasty people to expose their true nature.  As the ambient variables fluctuate due to economic, cultural, and threatening forces, so does the percentage of the nasty people feel empowered to assert itself to inflict pain and suffering upon others.
Therefore, today there is an absolute number -- and a relatively high percentage -- of nasty people out lurking, empowered, and inflicting pain and suffering upon others.
This may be easily observed while driving, while shopping, observing personal interactions depicted in the news, and in global events.
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