| ▲ | immibis 12 days ago |
| Everything's not fine, hasn't been fine for at least a decade, and it's not at all certain that everything is going to be fine. |
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| ▲ | mvdtnz 12 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Everything has never and will never be completely fine. Things are better today than ever and continue to improve. Get offline and look around the real world for a while. |
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| ▲ | karaterobot 12 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Things are certainly better overall, but that improvement is not universal, and not evenly distributed. Clearly. Otherwise, we would simply say "everything is as good as it can practically be," which is something few people are doing. One of the ways in which the world is imperfect is that our media—and our relationship to that media—could be better. Anything in that to disagree with? | |
| ▲ | immibis 12 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | By most metrics, things were better about a decade ago. We're on a downward trajectory now. Except by GDP. | | |
| ▲ | reissbaker 12 days ago | parent | next [-] | | What metrics do you think were better in 2015? | | | |
| ▲ | mvdtnz 12 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | What metrics? Do you think the millions of people lifted out of extreme poverty in the last decade would agree? | | |
| ▲ | immibis 11 days ago | parent [-] | | Didn't I say "except by GDP?" Extreme poverty is decided based on GDP. | | |
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| ▲ | tolerance 12 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | What real world? |
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| ▲ | StefanBatory 10 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good… so far so good… How you fall doesn’t matter. It’s how you land!" |
