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Things have gotten better and progress has been made from times past, it just seems worse now because we have more access to information. We've come far, and have further to go!

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

In 10 years time, we wont be bragging so much about our numbers.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It's not like we don't still have problems to fix, but always only focusing on them doesn't show just how far we've come.

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[–] Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't really care about any of that. All that matters is that I'm constantly having to fight to keep wfh, it's impossible to get health issues diagnosed and I just keep wasting hundreds of dollars on trying, I've resigned myself to staying untreated for adhd and whatever else, I am sick of having to work a job where I need to interact with people, and all the foods I enjoy the most make me incredibly sick and I'm sure are gonna kill me one day. If I had a choice I wouldn't have been born. I am very lucky, I have no money problems, didn't have to buy my house, have a good long term stable relationship, not having to deal with having had kids, quiet neighborhood with no crime... but things should be a lot better than this. People can shove their head in the sand and pretend things are not going to end very badly for humankind and I personally don't care. I live my life and enjoy what I like and either I'll be dead or will witness the glorious end of humanity. I just hope my AC keeps up with climate change lol!

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Im as cynical as they come and I want to see more posts like this.

I still have an urge to be cynical, but less so.

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Glass half full guy 😂

[–] ssebastianoo@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

factfulness

[–] ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It really is easy to lose track of how far we've come until we look back. Thanks for this!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Over the last 20 years, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has almost been cut in half

If you quote this people will applaud gleefully, but if you ask "Which countries have been the most successful at eliminating poverty" you get called a bot.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm suspicious of that stat.

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[–] droans@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course it's mostly going to be in Asia and Africa since that's where the largest concentration of people in extreme poverty was.

Less than 0.25% of the US lives in extreme poverty; even bringing it to zero won't make a large dent in the global numbers.

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[–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Refreshing to see this instead of the usual screeching here on lemmy. I really need to stop looking at 99% of this bullshit on here.

Atleast for 2 minutes I believed the average quality of content will not go to the shitter like reddit.

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