3 ms·
All of this has been true for over half a century. The problem is that the direction of improvement in lives has changed. Compare today to the 90s and there’s
by addicted 2y ago
All of this has been true for over half a century.
The problem is that the direction of improvement in lives has changed.
Compare today to the 90s and there’s very little reason to believe that today is better than the 90s in a developed country.
What’s frustrating is that we have MORE tools to be in a much better shape right now. We have things available to us today that people wouldn’t have dreamt of in the 90s, including smartphones. But unfortunately, those tools are being used almost entirely for the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few and for disinforming and misleading people to accelerate the concentration of wealth.
- soared 2y agoLess war though, at least for those in most of the developed world.
- wilsonnb3 2y agoSafer and more reliable cars, cancer is less deadly, the HPV vaccine, malaria vsccines, lower homicide rate, I could go on but this seems like a good list. Be careful where you get your data - news is biased towards sensationalism and negativity.
- mitthrowaway2 2y agoCars are getting increasingly dangerous for non-occupants, unfortunately. But certainly AIDS is in a much better situation than it was in the '90s.
- _DeadFred_ 2y agoI disagree. Reagan's plans, including legitimizing stock buybacks which were previously taboo stock manipulation, 'starving the beast' where a political party was willing to weaponize making the US government worse in order to achieve their ends, etc. are what is responsible for today's worsening environment. You are conflating current technical change with the results of decades olds political policies.
- hgomersall 2y agoIt certainly feels to me that we're simply at the logical end-ish point of 40 years of neoclassical policies that have encouraged the dismantling of society.