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Originally Posted by rubecube
"Better than 100 years ago" /= good.
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The human existence has never been as good as it is today. Despite people’s pessimistic outlook and thinking the worst, we have made enormous global progress. There could have been a newspaper headline today that said “yesterday 137,000 people were lifted from extreme poverty” and not only is that true, but they could have run that headline every day for the past 25 years! We’ve made astounding progress. We live better, have more stable lives, more food security and are healthier than at anytime in human history.
So, you can look at things cynically and say how bad things are and that we have all these problems. But the statistical reality is that there have been incredible improvements in nearly every department, and across the continents.