Metrics are Better Than They Were in the Middle Ages So Why Do You Care That You are One Paycheck Away From Homelessness
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The feeling is that we are heading toward a relative minimum (not a global one). Forget long term history, think about the last 3-4 decades. This is not that hard.
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It can be simultaneously true that (1) things are better than in most of recorded human history (which was mostly shitty-both meanings) and (2) things are getting worse now. Signed, Someone paid good money for me to understand this shit.
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Steven Pinker’s latest book, Enlightenment Now, The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress...a worthy read on this subject.
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Humans do not use the historical scale.
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Interesting read. Our memory is most definitely selective and our intuitive capacity to compare past & present is simply unreliable. Which ultimately plays to the hands of politicians who heavily rely on scare tactics, as we’ve seen in recent years.
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Because human's realize we can do much better than this.
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Because nowadays still the poor ones count. And for the poor 90% in global north the mentioned improvements startet to turn back.
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Ignorance was bliss.
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Individual lives are better overall, but at a huge, arguably unsustainable, cost to the planet. And the jury's still out for the long term benefit to human life of the recent gains.
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And news outlets like the New Yorker are a leading cause for why people might think that.
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News media's fault?
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The message hasn't changed. The delivery and the Like button have made everything black or white, jejune if you will. We put more emphasis on our own biases and find a supportive community of like minded biased people very, very quickly to amplify our aforementioned biases.
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...solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short...
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Primarily because of boring tweets from the New Yorker, right
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What the article states has always been true. Things have been getting better in every way for humans on this planet for a thousand years, and everybody always thinks they're getting worse. Now if you're other than human, you may have a legitimate gripe with the turn of events.
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Most people don't read history or statistics.
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That's the power of propaganda
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