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There's always been social issues, wars, famines, etc... And yet somehow the world is better than it's ever been. Things will keep getting better...

• polotics 4y ago
  Hahaha Mike the logic on display in this comment would indeed make one despair. To the post original author: the temporary boon of cheap oil to burn has reached its end, the century will cleanse all excesses, and what's left of humanity will be wiser and kinder.
  • Mikeb85 4y ago
    And what's wrong with my logic? It's been demonstrated over the course of at least 6000 years of written record. We've always managed to come up with solutions to our problems.
    • polotics 4y ago
      Nassim Taleb uses the story of the one-year-old goose, so content that the nice humans have always and ever allowed her to get bigger and bigger. Then Thanksgiving happens. Over the hundreds of thousands of years of its actual existence, humanity has seen massive setbacks, inclusive of a moment when no more than a few thousands of us were alive, it was 70'000 years ago, it's in our genes. It is also very possible that there were previous periods with written records. We just don't have those.