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So it is very interesting to see that this article has very few views, no other comments, and very few up votes. We are living in the best of times. We just do
by jschveibinz 4y ago
So it is very interesting to see that this article has very few views, no other comments, and very few up votes.
We are living in the best of times. We just don’t want to believe it.
- throwayyy479087 4y agoI agree on a longer time scale, but my life and the lives of many I know is markedly worse than 5 years ago. Crime is up a LOT in NYC, and the subway for the first time in my lifetime feels sketchy during the day. Inflation has really hurt a lot of my lower SES friends, and there's a general nihilism that's pretty unpleasant. Also, the mass shooting thing has gotten much worse in the last 30 years.
- powerbroker 4y agoMass shooting deaths YTD at end of March 2023: ~200. Gun violence deaths YTD at end of March 2023: ~10,000. Question asked: "How many peole in the u.s. die in mass shootings compared to how many people die in gun violence?" Source: https://www.phind.com/search?cache=6a726999-4846-410b-aa52-57beb3bc54bd https://www.phind.com/search?cache=6a726999-4846-410b-aa52-5...
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- JoeyJoJoJr 4y agoI hope your comment is being sarcastic, because if not, it really highlights how completely and utterly bonkers the discourse on school shootings has become in the USA. Your numbers do not take into account the thousands of students at each school (and surrounding schools), and their parents, that experience horrific trauma from shootings, which is simply not comparable to an accidental pool or car death.
- __pache__ 4y agoNope being serious. I'm living with a disabled father from a car accident. Decades to go caring for a completely disabled person. Many thousands of people every year are in pain from car accidents. Or medical malpractice which takes like a quarter million lives yearly. No need to go on about extremely rare insane people that are almost all medicated. They would drive a truck through a crowd if not gun them down. The numbers don't make sense, 200 vs millions impacted by other real problems
- JoeyJoJoJr 4y agoWith the lack of unified empathy surrounding school shootings, it’s not surprising that millions of people are impacted by things like shitty healthcare, dangerous driving, relentless marketing for unhealthy lifestyles, etc. The shootings and its highly toxic discourse are symptoms of something very rotten. School shootings in the USA absolutely eclipse every other first world nation combined. Also, 200 deaths equates to potentially hundreds of thousands of traumatised kids. With such fear permeating it’s not surprising that the system produces mentally unstable people that can’t access treatment.
- watwut 4y agoIt is perfectly valid for people to be angry about mass shootings, even if people die more from something else. It even actually rationally does not make sense to act like it is a gotcha. Moreover, actually in USA deaths on roads went up Moreover, there is large overlap between those who see mass shooting as issue and those who want walkable streets and the kind of zoning that promotes less driving.
- __pache__ 4y agoIt's also perfectly valid to be realistic: the reality is they are exceedingly rare. That's it. You don't need to check all the Halloween candy.
- _cenw 4y agoAll these examples are on timescales of 70+ years. That's kind of meaningless to me, a millenial, looking at all wealth having already been bundled up. Living in cities or owning a house? Barely affordable, even with an average tech salary. I don't even want to assume how shitty things would be if I made below 50k like most of my peers. You could make a very similar list focusing on income, cost of living and relative buying power on a timescale of 50 years or another on the environment on a scale of 20 years and both would be quite depressing. It feels very "well actually" wishful thinking by someone well off enough to ignore all the cracks. At least it doesn't feel quite as deliberately misleading as the Steven Pinker "we redefined the poverty line, look at all the poverty that's going away" slight of hand.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> meaningless to me, a millenial, looking at all wealth having already been bundled up. Living in cities or owning a house? Barely affordable, even with an average tech salary Well, you’re living. Without disease, war or famine. The world’s knowledge at your fingertips. I’m about your age, and while there is a lot of work to be done, one of the most difficult hurdles to solving them is the nihilism and civic disengagement in our generation and industry. We’re sitting in a golden age of human achievement at the centre of the first world. > could make a very similar list focusing on income, cost of living and relative buying power on a timescale of 50 years or another on the environment on a scale of 20 years and both would be quite depressing Real wages have gone up over the last fifty and twenty years. Living in cities has become less affordable. But that you’re citing that as a standard of wellbeing, it’s a massive improvement from the post-War era.
- uxcolumbo 4y agoWhat good is it when you have to perform one or multiple menial jobs every day just to exist. That lifestyle doesn't leave you with much mental energy at the end of a long work day to absorb and learn from the world's knowledge at your fingertips. Yes, some folks are probably able to pull themselves out of that situation - but those are edge cases. On top of that the added anxiety people experience because of living paycheck to paycheck. It's becoming more and more like in the movie Elysium - all the technological wonders are there - just not accessible to the poor.