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Has it, or has the Internet just made problems much more visible? Now, whenever there's conflict, disaster, or crime, there's a smartphone camera pointing at i
by bluescrn 1y ago
Has it, or has the Internet just made problems much more visible?
Now, whenever there's conflict, disaster, or crime, there's a smartphone camera pointing at it within seconds.
Are we facing a rapid rise in extreme weather events? or in violent crime? In both cases, we're certainly seeing far more footage of them in recent years - but that doesn't necessarily say anything about overall trends.
- BrenBarn 1y agoIt seems like violence likely has not gotten worse globally, although it has increased in some specific ways that scare first-world dwellers. I think inequality though has indeed increased.
- MarkusQ 1y agoInequality has increased, but not in the way most people assume. Almost everyone is materially better off than their prior-generation equivalents. It's just that some people (typically, those closest to the source of the improvement) have seen significantly more improvement than average.
- AfterHIA 1y agoThat isn't true. Social institutions have declined and the welfare state has receded in most of the United States. The illusion that marginal increases in the availability of technology much of which has been showed to tacitly lower one's quality of living (consider social media's effect on the self image of teenagers) has somehow resulted in a better quality of life for many is myth you tell yourself to justify you living better than most. https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html https://www.rand.org/education-employment-infrastructure/projects/racial-wealth-gap.html https://www.rand.org/education-employment-infrastructure/pro...
- MarkusQ 1y agoYou are rebutting a point I didn't make, unless by "available technology" you mean things like food, electricity, medicine, etc. You are also making huge unjustified assumptions about who I am and why I believe the things I do.
- AfterHIA 1y agohttps://nassimtaleb.org/2015/06/one-page-answer-to-pinkers-notion-that-violence-has-dropped-since-1945/ https://nassimtaleb.org/2015/06/one-page-answer-to-pinkers-n... It has gotten worse statistically. It's not just optics. This is critical as much of the western world is still living in the illusion that, "liberal democracy (the great civilizer) is that last form of government." Tell that to a Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Chinese, or Turkish person.