This is one of my favorite infographics. A lot of people underestimate just how much life has improved over the last two centuries: https://t.co/djavT7MaW9 https://t.co/kuII7j4AuW
This is one of my favorite infographics. A lot of people underestimate just how much life has improved over the last two centuries: https://t.co/djavT7MaW9 https://t.co/kuII7j4AuW
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
more people now enjoy a higher standard of living, and do so for more years and in better health, than at any time in history. Yet these beneficiaries are still a minority (only about a fifth) of the world’s population, whose total count is approaching 8 billion people.
Vaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
#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
leadershipfreak.blog • How Leaders are Made Wise and Why We Often Remain Foolish | Leadership Freak
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