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Energy might be conserved, but wealth is not. Life is not a zero sum game. Society is vastly more wealthy than we've ever been before. Access to education, med
by polishTar 9y ago
Energy might be conserved, but wealth is not. Life is not a zero sum game.
Society is vastly more wealthy than we've ever been before. Access to education, medicine, information, transportation, entertainment are at all time highs. Life expectancies continue to rise and gdp adjusted by purchasing power on a per capita basis is up over 40% in the last 3 decades.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoNitpick: Life expectancy has actually trended down slightly in the US, and is behind most other first world countries. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/02/22/us-life-expectancy-is-low-and-is-now-projected-to-be-on-par-with-mexico-by-2030.html https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/02/22/us-life-expectancy-is-lo...
- polishTar 9y agoNot exactly true. Life expectancy hasn't slipped, although admittedly it hasn't been increasing very fast in the last couple of years (up only 1 year over the last decade). http://hdr.undp.org/en/indicators/69206 http://hdr.undp.org/en/indicators/69206 Either way, you shouldn't look too much at short term trends when trying to measure long term development. If you start from 1990, life expectancy has actually risen by 4 years.