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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.





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?

By most metrics, things were better about a decade ago. We're on a downward trajectory now. Except by GDP.

What metrics do you think were better in 2015?

Opioid deaths down 2x, for one

What metrics? Do you think the millions of people lifted out of extreme poverty in the last decade would agree?

Didn't I say "except by GDP?" Extreme poverty is decided based on GDP.

No extreme poverty is not decided based on GDP[0]. So which metrics?

0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty


> In 2018, extreme poverty mainly refers to an income below the international poverty line of $1.90 per day (in 2011 prices, $2.57 in 2023 dollars),[2] set by the World Bank.

I'm ending this discussion now.


What.... what do you think GDP is? You seem very confused.

What real world?



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