I really never have believed times improved, and i am almost positive things will only get worse.

30 years ago we had a future to look to, the unshittified internet, great music, affordable land/housing, affordable durable cars, people actually interacted in real life, no social media trash. Now, we have billionaires and LLMs. I don’t see how anyone can possibly think times are better or going to improve.

Yes, everyone will say “civil rights improved” and yes thats maybe the only thing that has changed, however it’s getting taken away every day again so I don’t think you can even use that point anymore.

  • MyBrainHurts@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5日前

    For most of the world’s population, things have significantly improved by almost every conceivable measure.

    I strongly recommend Roslings book, Factfulness. The difference between how people think things have changed and what’s happened is wild.

    Edit: Just saw the (US tag, sorry.)