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The perception is that society itself is the roadblock to improving society. For example American "democracy". It's easy to imagine things could improve faster
by inigyou 3mo ago
The perception is that society itself is the roadblock to improving society. For example American "democracy". It's easy to imagine things could improve faster if Congress and the executive were simply deleted overnight.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 3mo agoReplaced by what exactly? The US has one of the highest median incomes in the world adjusted for cost of living: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incomes-across-distribution-wb https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incomes-across-distributi... The fraction of the US population living on $30 or less per day is comparable to Sweden: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/poverty-share-on-less-than-30-per-day https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/poverty-share-on-less-tha... Our education system also looks pretty good in international comparisons: https://xcancel.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1732087511327908128 https://xcancel.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/17320875113279081... News focuses on the negatives, but we're doing reasonably well in absolute terms. Big random changes are likely to cause regression to the international mean, which is generally below the US on most metrics.