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Has society advanced? By what metric?
by frabbit 6y ago
Has society advanced? By what metric?
- oblio 6y agoLife expectancy, mortality rates for infants, nutrition, eradication of treatable diseases, ... Most things we can measure are better. Individual happiness, that's P = NP.
- frabbit 6y agoSo, then you agree with the proposition that in general society has advanced, life is better and that most intelligent and reasonable people share that unarguable view? And yet you wonder why people who are seeing declining life expectancy, poor nutrition and probable long-term unemployment react against the statement of that view as applying to them? https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2019/12/02/middle-age-death https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2019/12/02/middle-ag...