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What a Time to Be Alive
So many people say "I don't want to have kids because I don't want them to experience all the issues in the world today". What are they smoking?
We literally live in the best era we've ever seen in human civilization.
Progress is good. As Steven Pinker has argued, most things are getting better over time. We are richer, healthier, safer, and better-educated than our ancestors. Although redistribution and social changes can make things better or worse around the edges, most of our current fortunate position comes from simple economic growth.
Scott Alexander • Notes From The Progress Studies Conference
This is a very heroic time to be on earth. There’s a tremendous amount of creativity and change and possibilities. You are part of that. This is a truly wonderful era. Your decision to be here on earth at this marvelous time was one of the coolest spiritual moves you ever made.
Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
#1. The good ole days
Don’t pine for the good ole days. Get busy creating the future.
Twenty years from now these will be the good ole days.
It feels like the world is getting worse, but it’s getting better.
Average global life expectancy in 1950 was 52.57 years. In 2018 it was 72.56 years.
Average global infant mortality rate per 1,000 births in 1950 w