Years ago, an experiment was done in which three American families were taken to a remote part of the Midwest and left to survive with few belongings and 19th century technology (horse-drawn plows, etc.) for a year.
Families were able to persevere through the year without being rescued, and at the end of it, they returned to their current century lives, with video games, TV, etc.
When interviewed a year after the end of the experiment, almost to a person the family members agreed that the year "in the past" had been very difficult, but they were happier during that year than they were now.
Which raises the question: what is true poverty? Were the participants poorer during the experiment, or in their present lives?
