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Everything Is Better And Everyone Is Sad
Is our world better or worse?
The world is one of the best places to be right now.
Not the other galaxies but this one. The milky way. The solar system and the big blue planet Earth revolve around the sun for a full year. A whole of 365 days. Speaking of which the year 2022 saw a number of negative news. The interest rates, the inflation, and the riots are just the tip of the iceberg.
The world seems to be heading into a black hole where everything is doom and gloom. But in 2022 we also reverse organ deaths in pigs, making the first embryo from stem cells that got the best results from cancer and obesity therapy trials. This is not just in 2022. This has been going on for a long, long time.
We now know the beginning of time. The historical metric of worldwide poverty has gone down 7 years before the United Nations predicted it would.
Since 1990, child mortality has reduced with life expectancy improving parallel with the overall GDP (Growth Domestic Product) across the world. Education has improved alongside the per capita government expenditure in countries like Canada, the United States, India, and many others.
Early in the decade of 2010, comedian Louis CK went on Conan Obrien’s show to do an interview. What he did was a…