> there's a numbers game that can be played with this The human bias is to pessimism. Sure. The world sucks. It always has and always will. Ukraine is going th

> there's a numbers game that can be played with this The human bias is to pessimism. Sure. The world sucks. It always has and always will. Ukraine is going through hell. I saw a program about miners in Congo whose job is to go down into deep holes, not much wider than their shoulders, that not infrequently cave in and bury them alive. It's good money though, at $5 a day, so, there's that. If the Guardian is to be believed, there are 40 million slaves alive today, more than the entire 250 year history of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Or, maybe, to remain rational, this bias needs an explicit counter. No matter how good things get, we humans will always be prepared to get really depressed about what's not working. There's a war. There are several wars actually. But fewer people by every measure are dying in them. Cold comfort to the guy whose entire family, including his 3 month old baby daughter, died yesterday in Russian missile strike, but, hey, fewer babies dying in war, I can't see that's not something to celebrate.