Whether things are moving in the right direction depends on how you measure things and who you believe. There are lots of signs in the positive direction, but J

Whether things are moving in the right direction depends on how you measure things and who you believe. There are lots of signs in the positive direction, but Jason Hickel famously argued that things are moving in the wrong direction everywhere except China (https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-...) and that even including China, at the current rate it could take 200-500 years to resolve global poverty (https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/4/27/200-years-to-end-poverty https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/4/27/200-years-to-end-...)