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For some reason we as humanity have been living really well for the last 50 years and, without thought, we imagine it's just going to stay like that.
by voqv 8y ago
For some reason we as humanity have been living really well for the last 50 years and, without thought, we imagine it's just going to stay like that.
- addicted 8y agoBut even that is misleading. A small fraction of humanity has been living really well. And it’s increasingly apparent they have been able to do so by essentially pushing the costs of their actions to future generations.
- vokep 8y agoNo. Almost everyone is living "really well" compared to 100 years back. The lowest low is higher than it was before.
- ryanmercer 8y ago"living really well" is highly subjective, >5 billion people now have a mobile phone connection, according to GSMA data. Per https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/13/5-billion-people-now-have-a-mobile-phone-connection-according-to-gsma-data/ https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/13/5-billion-people-now-have... That alone should be an indication people are living quite different now than just 10 years ago.
- crispinb 8y agoEven 'living well' isn't quite right. By and large, we have swapped out physical for psychological suffering.
- voqv 8y agoWhat I meant is, for an unprecedented in human history amount of people life is not poverty, dirt, disease and death at 40. But you're right, just like the observation below, we (this amount of people) also offload our suffering onto the environment and even onto some of those people living in poverty.