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So yeah “things” are shittier, because nowadays we have the ability to live in a nearly post-scarcity society but we just don’t wanna.
Humankind could have been living in blissful peace for centuries. We’ve always had the ability to not kill each other or fight for resources. But many people, then and now, don’t want that.
The way civilizations/empires/countries have operated has largely been competitive. It’s naive to think we’ll all just come together and solve these very complicated problems.
Saying that people are stupid or racist… I don’t think that barely has anything to do with what prevents all major countries of the world to work together to combat things like disease, climate change, inequality, etc.
How do you define “things”?
On a global scale and on average, life for humans is getting significantly better than, say, a century ago. The number of people dying from preventable diseases, war, natural disasters has been steadily going down for a while now.
Of course there are many more people on earth than there were 100 years ago, so accumulatively there is a lot more suffering now.
Also, the lives of individual people, the state of certain countries and areas are certainly getting worse.
As for non-human animals… For most of them the world is getting increasingly less habitable and for those who are raised in an industrial setting for human consumption, living conditions are largely atrocious.
I think your question is too broad for a single answer. But you might be interested in this now 17 year old (!) TED talk by the late Hans Rosling, which at least partially answers your question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w
I used ‘reader mode’, or whatever it’s called, on Firefox and that worked well.
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That’s great! Glad it’s working out.
One thing made me chuckle though:
with only 4 gigabytes of RAM
Am I just old or is 4GB actually loads of RAM?
I’ve been using Lemmy through the browser so far. Was a bit annoying but felt it was worth the hassle. Super happy inifinity is now available though, it’s the way I browsed reddit and it makes lemmy a whole lot more accessible (for me).
Thank you!
The title is actually accurate, those are crazy trains. I love the Hello Kitty one