https://ourworldindata.org/optimism-pessimism https://ourworldindata.org/optimism-pessimism The tl;dr of that is that the world is getting better at a rate tha

https://ourworldindata.org/optimism-pessimism https://ourworldindata.org/optimism-pessimism The tl;dr of that is that the world is getting better at a rate that's almost impossible to believe. In fact, it is impossible to believe, which is why so many people don't. It explores the psychology of that a bit. https://fee.org/articles/average-americans-today-are-richer-than-john-rockefeller-ever-was/ https://fee.org/articles/average-americans-today-are-richer-... 200 years from now, when the average American is incalculably richer than Elon Musk is today, we'll still be having this conversation. Or capitalism may have ended and the phrase "richer than Elon Musk" may not mean anything. Or we may all be uploaded to the central core. I don't know, but if I had to bet, it'll be better regardless. Climate change is admittedly a pretty nasty problem. But we have lots of solutions (geoengineering); it's just a matter of whether we give up on the idea that this particular crisis is the end of capitalism in time to use them.