Comments by "yapdog" (@yapdog) on "Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker" video.

You wouldn't believe how harshly I always get attacked online when I said we're better off now than we were by nearly every measure. I've been saying this for the past 10 years, but, no matter their political leanings, people really don't like to hear it, calling me ignorant.
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@valar -- taking what you into account, subjective stats, is the world, as a whole, better off or worse than in years past? That's the original premise and I think that the dissenters miss it when they focus on some individual metric, real or imagined, that concerns them personally. They talk about "head in the sand" or what have you without realizing they're actually missing the point.
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