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Not all those things are actually getting worse! Crime is falling in the long term, not rising, at least in the US. Much of the world now allows same-sex marri
by iainmerrick 10y ago
Not all those things are actually getting worse!
Crime is falling in the long term, not rising, at least in the US. Much of the world now allows same-sex marriage, which I think is an important civil rights advancement.
I take your points on war, the crackdown on whistleblowers, income inequality. But on the upside, we have tremendous advances in medicine (is that "just" technology?)
It's a mixed picture, not a universally gloomy one.
- wallace_f 10y ago> Crime is falling in the long term, not rising, at least in the US. According to this[1] crime rates in the USA are higher than they were in 1960 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
- iainmerrick 10y agoI'm very happy to let the chart on that page speak for itself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Property_Crime_Rates_in_the_United_States.svg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Property_Crime_Rates_in...