The comments in here remind me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsXFwy6gG_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsXFwy6gG_4 Eric Schmidt takes the s

The comments in here remind me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsXFwy6gG_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsXFwy6gG_4 Eric Schmidt takes the side a lot of people here take, which is "everything is getting better", and Peter Thiel takes the other side, that things aren't getting better. I don't think things are getting better at all. You can easily just use your own metrics and then come to the conclusion that everything is getting better. The problem is, your metrics are bullshit so you are coming to the wrong conclusion. I have seen all kinds of metrics used in here like "don't have to hunt", "live longer", "safer", "can watch netflix". I don't think any of these things have to do with whether or not people's lives are getting better. You can just take one of those metrics - "live longer", and see that in itself, it can't measure "getting better", because you can live for 80 years and have a terrible life, or have 60 years of an excellent life. I think people in silicon valley are just completely clueless and are making the wrong bet, which is why they never see things like Trump coming. Things aren't getting better and people know it.