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> Every year gets better and better for most of us on average. No, it’s not that “better”. Life expectancy increase but stress increase, smartphone penetration
by aziaziazi 3y ago
> Every year gets better and better for most of us on average.
No, it’s not that “better”. Life expectancy increase but stress increase, smartphone penetration grow as well as children working in mines, there’s less and less food shortage but people eat crap and die from obesity. Meanwhile slums continues poping and growing everywhere - even in rich countries - and there’s a ton more lung cancer even for non-smokers.
Is it being misanthropic to point out what feels wrong in our world ? Not being mad or sad does not makes you more a humanity lover.
- meany 3y agoI don't think your view is supported by the data. As for stress, I'm not sure how you can measure that. But as for child labor, there has been a steady decrease over the decades (source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/various-measures-of-child-labour-incidence https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/various-measures-of-child...). Your comment on food shortages vs. eating bad food is hard to understand. Are you saying it is worse to eat bad food rather than starve to death? Starvation rates are way down from 50 years ago. (source: https://sites.tufts.edu/wpf/files/2017/05/2_170405_world_famine_mort-copy.jpg https://sites.tufts.edu/wpf/files/2017/05/2_170405_world_fam...) As for lung cancer, that doesn't seem to be increasing in rich countries. Here is a link to CDC data for the US (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6730a8.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6730a8.htm) Do you have data to back up your claims?