Some positivity for your day!

The poverty rate stuff is pure bs. The world bank just lowered the stated official poverty line without actually improving living conditions.

https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty

the last two are easily debunked. I hate shit like this because it reinforces an idea that time = progress. There are influential and powerful people alive today who would reverse any of these trends if it meant money in their pocket.

Jesus Christ this thread. The technicalities aren't the point. You are allowed to find happiness where you can in an imperfect world that contains suffering. It doesn't mean you'll be complacent to injustice. Fighting against injustice can be done without thinking the world is hopeless dogshit. There's satisfaction that can be justifiably had, through means other than smug superiority at knowing all the depressing truths of the world, or the sympathy of others for your problems. We feed ourselves so much rage and sadness via the internet, can we not have a palate-cleanser like this without chewing it up and spitting it out, and then going back to gorging on more?

Wait, are you just checking the average human welfare without checking individual variance? OH GOD, THE JEWS!

Wealth inequality is possibly the highest it's ever been in history.

I wouldn't be surprised if food wasted (food that goes straight to the trash) nowadays is also at peak numbers, or close to.

During the Bolsonaro years (2019-2022), Brazil saw a drastic increase in extreme poverty, made worse by the pandemic. Poor people were literally scavenging carcasses for anything that could still be eaten. We're still trying to recover.

Do not take any of those good things for granted, they can be very easily reverted by a small number of psychopath assholes.

While "technically" true. We all know the average lifespan was brought down by a high infant mortality. So comparingbthat to when peopke retired is meaningless. That said, it dies seem worse because with more information we realize how much better it could be. 100 years ago, the average american had no idea how common slums were outside the US. And those that knew considered those slum people less than human. So what we have really done is expanded who is considered human, and who matters. That certainly does make it look worse.

Every one of which we are backsliding on. We should be alarmed.

The average American didn't die at age 51. And, while the average life expectancy might have been 51 years, that's a Spiders Georg moment.

The life expectancy was thrown off by all the child mortality. If you lived past 10 years, you were likely to live to 70.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625386/

What's the opposite of doom-posting? Because this is refreshing as hell.

The environmental problems are critical, though. And it's what ultimately will decide the fate of our species. There is room for optimism in some aspects of our society, but that is not an indication that in the end everything will be alright.

Conservatives are trying to roll it back, don't worry.

The extreme poverty one is laughable especially when criteria to define extreme poverty is ridiculous. Extreme poverty in places where you earn less than $1.90 but can still have subsistence farming and community doesn't make sense - also if living in San Francisco and earning $2/day isn't extreme poverty... I don't know what is.

Poverty shouldn't be tied to capital but to standards of living - that would be a completely different story.

More of this is needed.

Just about time to retire this meme format, I think.

If the only positive things you can come up with are lies and half-truths, maybe keep it to yourself.

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If you like this post maybe read The Progress Paradox. It goes in much more detail than this meme, it then poses the question but then why aren't we happy. Without giving answers it does point to possible paths. It's a good book.

You know what? I did like this post, thanks.

In 10 years time, we wont be bragging so much about our numbers.

I don't really care about any of that. All that matters is that I'm constantly having to fight to keep wfh, it's impossible to get health issues diagnosed and I just keep wasting hundreds of dollars on trying, I've resigned myself to staying untreated for adhd and whatever else, I am sick of having to work a job where I need to interact with people, and all the foods I enjoy the most make me incredibly sick and I'm sure are gonna kill me one day. If I had a choice I wouldn't have been born. I am very lucky, I have no money problems, didn't have to buy my house, have a good long term stable relationship, not having to deal with having had kids, quiet neighborhood with no crime... but things should be a lot better than this. People can shove their head in the sand and pretend things are not going to end very badly for humankind and I personally don't care. I live my life and enjoy what I like and either I'll be dead or will witness the glorious end of humanity. I just hope my AC keeps up with climate change lol!

It's not like we don't still have problems to fix, but always only focusing on them doesn't show just how far we've come.

Glass half full guy 😂

Im as cynical as they come and I want to see more posts like this.

I still have an urge to be cynical, but less so.

factfulness

Over the last 20 years, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has almost been cut in half

If you quote this people will applaud gleefully, but if you ask "Which countries have been the most successful at eliminating poverty" you get called a bot.

Liberal copium.

None of those things will last. Remember, MIT ran the simulations. Society is supposed to collapse by 2040.

...someone read Pinker.

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Refreshing to see this instead of the usual screeching here on lemmy. I really need to stop looking at 99% of this bullshit on here.

Atleast for 2 minutes I believed the average quality of content will not go to the shitter like reddit.

I think that things are going to be okay as long as we allow them to be okay

Oh, look, a bastardization of statistics to defend the status quo wrapped up in "positivity" bullshit so if you call out their nonsense, you look like an asshole.

There's a special place in hell for people like @Godric.

People are saying these aren't even true which I believe, but also what this does not take into account is that the ability to take care of humanity has expanded far, far more than we're allowing to actually happen. And if the right wing has anything to say about it, we'll do even less caring for our people. We could easily solve world hunger with today's wealth but instead we have people that could burn a million dollars a day and still be rich for many years

1. humans are an invasive & overpopulated species

2. people can read but still choose to be ignorant

3. Americans working til their 60s is sad

4. Because of the rising population, there are more homeless people than ever before