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We can judge the title, the thesis, and how it focuses attention away from the problems.

• haswell 4y ago
  > We can judge the title, the thesis That is essentially what I said above. There are plenty of ways to pick this apart, and I have plenty of questions/issues with the content. I'm just saying we don't have to use ad hominem attacks to do so. > and how it focuses attention away from the problems An article titled "24 charts that show we’re (mostly) living better than our parents" is probably going to skew towards the things that are going well - that's kind of the point. That doesn't automatically imply everything is awesome, and you might take issue with such an examination and argue it does not give enough airtime to other systemic issues, and indeed this is where I'd focus. But that is a different kind of conversation than one that disagrees with the conclusions about each of those 24 things. Speaking of which, what are those primary problems from your perspective?