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Some positivity for your day!
(lemmy.world)
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!
The poverty rate stuff is pure bs. The world bank just lowered the stated official poverty line without actually improving living conditions.
https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty
Living conditions of the so called poor today is much better than living conditions of kings just a couple of centuries ago.
lol guess it's possible to believe anything
These are the facts. You don't have to believe them, they just are.