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> Our species is better off in just about every measurable material way Ahh, I smell Pinker Bullshit in the air. It is true that if you only measure things loo
by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> Our species is better off in just about every measurable material way
Ahh, I smell Pinker Bullshit in the air. It is true that if you only measure things looking for positive change, you'll only find positive change.
- api 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty#/media/File:World-population-in-extreme-poverty-absolute.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty#/media/File:Wo... We don't live in a utopia, but we also don't live in anything close to a Malthusian collapse. It's hard to get middle class people in the developed world to see this because life has in fact gotten harder in many ways for them, but those are entirely self-inflicted wounds. The #1 problem is failure to build housing to meet demand, leading to housing cost hyperinflation. That's a policy choice, not a result of any hard limit. Other problems include spiraling university costs due to institutional inefficiency and spiraling health care costs for a variety of reasons, and these are also policy failures. The rich world basically decided to make life hard on its working classes and young middle class people by perpetuating runaway cost disease in critical areas. Overall the world is getting less poor.
- DinaCoder99 3y agoOk, I don't particularly contradict the idea that we do not live in the best or worst possible worlds, but this doesn't change the fact that people who claim that the world is better in every measurable way conveniently don't measure anything that contradicts this claim.