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Any short term measurement will show blips. It’s like saying climate change isn’t real because it gets colder at night. On long term scales, everything is impr
by brookst 3y ago
Any short term measurement will show blips. It’s like saying climate change isn’t real because it gets colder at night.
On long term scales, everything is improving[1]. This is obvious to anyone whose ancestors were enslaved, unable to marry because of sexual orientation, or rejected for promotion because of gender. The world is not perfect (see the wars you cite) but it is so dramatically more peaceful than historic times that it really takes a huge bias toward doom to think otherwise.
Fair point on Steam, I forgot they switched from an arbitrary and capricious policy to allowing porn in 2018.
1. https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit...
- password54321 3y agoYou can't dismiss what's going on as a blip. You may be right, but to be more sure that is the outcome, you have to have at least a healthy level of cynicism and work against these issues. Positive change may be the trend on a long term scale, but it is not a given that it continues.