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What a Time to Be Alive
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
amazon.com
Since 1800, the population of the world has multiplied six times, yet average life expectancy has more than doubled and real income has risen more than nine times. Taking a shorter perspective, in 2005, compared with 1955, the average human being on Planet Earth earned nearly three times as much money (corrected for inflation), ate one-third more c... See more
Matt Ridley • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
Max Roserourworldindata.org
Faced with a name like the Terrible Twenties, many people might point out that humans today are in some ways far better off than they’ve ever been: life expectancies are up, on the whole, compared with a century ago (though they dipped during the pandemic); extreme poverty has sharply declined. It seems possible, though, that both interpretations a
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