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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
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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.)
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
... See moreKyle Chayka • The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era
The 20th century was the best century yet across every metric that matters It also had the biggest wars in history, the biggest genocide in history, the biggest existential threat yet with nuclear weapons, the biggest economic crash in history, etc.