Stossel: Life is Getting Better
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Don't believe news reports-we're healthier, richer, and safer than ever before.
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News reports often give the impression that human beings have wrecked the earth, the middle class is disappearing, and the world is getting more dangerous.
"We are destroying the planet," Michael Moore says on CNN. MSNBC says that "the middle class is disappearing." The media warn us about things like a "deadly Ebola outbreak."
This negativity comes from the way humans are wired by evolution, says Reason Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward.
She tells John Stossel: "If you are a caveman who hears a little rustling in the weeds, and you say, 'Oh, it's probably fine,' the other guy who says, 'It's probably a tiger,' that's the guy who lives. That guy was our ancestors."
But our instincts are wrong, she says. We needn't be so scared.
The cover of the August/September 2019 issue of Reason features a glass that's completely full. Inside the magazine, you'll read about how there is less war and more food. And we're healthier, while working safer and more fulfilling jobs.
Mangu-Ward points out that today we have medical breakthroughs that would've once been called miracles. Deaf children receive cochlear implants that allow them to hear for the first time. Artificial limbs "allow the lame to walk."
"These are things that, in another era, would have caused the founding of an entire religion!" says Mangu-Ward.
Stossel pushes back: "What about this constant complaint from the media?…The middle class is shrinking."
"Mostly it's because people are getting richer," Mangu-Ward responds.
She's right. A graph in Reason shows that about 50 years ago, 53 percent of people were middle-income, making between $35,000 and $100,000 per year. Although that statistic has since fallen to 42 percent, the reason is that many people moved into upper-income brackets. The share making more than $100,000 rose from 8 percent to almost 28 percent. (These numbers are inflation-adjusted.)
"Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death are All on the Decline," was the subtitle of another article in the issue.
"You wouldn't know that watching news programs," Stossel said.
"That's right, and yet it's absolutely true," added Mangu-Ward.
Even with the rise in terrorism, she notes, "There are fewer wars and fewer people die in those wars than has ever been true in the past."
Stossel pushes back again: "Lately, life expectancy dropped a bit."
"Overall, that is the tiniest blip," Mangu-Ward replies. The long-term trend is still up.
An article titled "How Work Got Good"argues that people are more fulfilled in modern jobs.
"A couple hundred years ago, work was dangerous," Mangu-Ward adds. "It was very easy to die at work…work was extremely boring, even for people that had good jobs. Jobs are pretty interesting now, and they mostly don't kill you, and we should be grateful for that."
But there are problems, and Reason's editors understand that. The back half of the magazine is filled with the bad news: misery in Venezuela, threats to an open internet, the new popularity of socialism.
"Everything that's bad is politics, everything that's good is the market." Mangu-Ward argues. "Life gets better. We have the opportunity to look to a future where those trends will continue-if we can just manage to keep politicians from screwing it up."
The views expressed in this video are solely those of John Stossel; his independent production company, Stossel Productions; and the people he interviews. The claims and opinions set forth in the video and accompanying text are not necessarily those of Reason.
That kid hearing his parents for the first time should give us all hope.
Poor guy.
How do you not tear up?
@@bjnowak The expression on that boy's face was priceless!
The governed improve in spite of the governing.
I was going to write my own comment but you summed it up better than me.
Bradley Payne:
Did you forget to place the question mark? Or do you agree with this moron that the mere addition that calculates her “averages” is the final word in human intelligence? Jesus!
(I added the word “mere” before “addition” in the second sentence so as to be as precise as possible!)
JWC
I would tweak this by saying, “The governed improve despite the governing” ;-)
In a comedy show with a 100 attending it and one gets upset...
The media will make it seem like the whole world just got offended.
It's their job to show a special case out of the normal case happening every day.
Suraj Shaw:
Yes let’s use the herd for our measure of ideal humanity! That’s science and science is “objective” and we know that because they tell us!
And they too deal in averages and while it’s sad we will just have to live with it that we will have to leave out of our calculations every truly great man or woman that ever lived!
But don’t worry! Be happy! And don’t forget that we have more than 800 military bases on foreign soil and their looking out for us too, right? Indeed, it’s because “all men are brothers” that we have all those based, right?
JWC
That's how we lost Apu.
*That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government*
I'm gonna have to give that comment a few more 👍 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
EASIER SAID THAN DONE.
1:08 -- The look of shock on the little boy's face when he realizes that he can hear -- and then the big hug with mom. Wonderful.
Ssoooo cuuutttteeeeeeee
Socialism has helped so many people into the grave.
The term is too broad
@wimmisky Actually they are.
Sharing the soil...in mass graves.
@wimmisky every time some tard calls em socialist denmark sweden and norway gotta break it to em that they are social democracys with free markets, not socialist.
Damn, that should be a t shirt
This is a great video to wake up to
It’s all true. But, ya know what else is true - Our terrible monetary and fiscal policy is going to devastate us.
Hell, even working at Amazon is not as bad as depicted.
BUUUT it's on fire!! - AOC
Amazon made tens of billions in profits last year but was perfectly willing to accept corporate welfare from NYC's Long Island for "HR2" even as they paid zero in corporate income taxes! GE also paid zero in corporate income taxes on billions in profit. I guess if your into that kind of thing then hell yeah, where does one sign up? Is that really the question we should be asking ourselves?
Don't get me wrong, having your own local Billionaires around like highly esteemed social alumni is good and all. Hey here in the the Metro Detroit area we don't yet have a truly usable mass transit system but change is in the offing.
But as long as you're economically mobile enough, you can now take in a Redwings Game or a concert at Dan Gilbert's new LCA (Little Caesars Arena), Lions game at Ford Field, or Tigers game at Comerica Park. Meanwhile, the promised investment in the neighborhood languishes. Facts do matter.
@@MrBrelindm First off, that wasn't corporate welfare, it was a tax break as an incentive to locate there, which AOC nixed, costing hundreds of jobs for no particular reason.
The rest sounded like you're trying to demonize them. And get in a shot at Detroit's politicians while you're at it.
David Brelin I think most of that falls on your local government as it does in most communities. They hope giving those tax breaks will bring jobs, jobs means more local income for the city. They just don’t spend it wisely, most city budgets are way in the red!
@@smokert5555 that's the point! DC doesn't have any kind of exclusive on corruption! And quite frankly, taking unnecessary enticements when they had a stockpile of money is the very definition of corporate welfare!
They're not being benevolent to the society at large, they're a net taker. A drain on needed City resources. And yes, Detroit's got a long and storied history of corruption too. There's questions currently surrounding the Land Bank, and another with Blight Removal. Grifters populate industry and government alike.
John Stossel's videos are getting better too!
Life is terrible. Just not as terrible. Yay for less terrible
Legit made me smile
Legit made me smile
@@HairFollicle i do not recall this comment.... drunk wisdom i suppose
Just notice how often Fox News says: "BREAKING NEWS" or "NEWS ALERT" or "EXTREME WEATHER". I'm sure the other news stations do it, I am just more familiar with Fox.
I WISH THE TV WOULD GO AWAY, IT'S THE DRAMA QUEEN OF TODAY.
@@melissanative1799 - I wish you NEVER said that! Not everything about television is bad these days! You only have the option of not watching it at whatever time of day!
@@robertpolanco1973 MOST OF IT IS NOT POSITIVE AND IT HAS INFLUENCED US IN A NEGATIVE WAY. IT'S SIMPLY NOT GOOD FOR A SOCIETY - IT'S DUMBED US DOWN!
And, worldwide, extreme poverty is declining dramatically.
Material wealth, medical innovation, and consumer technology are getting better, but at the same time people are losing meaning and purpose. There is more to life than materialism. Drug use, suicide rates, people having less or no children, and just an overall withdrawal from society is the problem people tend to dwell on.
"people are losing meaning and purpose"
Gee wiz. For thousands of years most people did nothing but pick wheat and shit.
What if I don't want kids or get married?
@@wiilover07 Good for you. That choice is fine on an individual level, but if done on a large scale it leads to an unstable society that collapses in a few generations.
Yes but all these come down to the bitterness, rage, and ingratitude spread by the left. If there was no left, there would be socialism. No socialism, no Great Society. No Great Society, very few broken families and aimless men.
Finally someone said that. Thank you reason magazine.
I live in the congressional district of Los Angeles, controlled by Ted Lieu.
The man who said: "I would love to be able to regulate the content of speech."
I am currently looking for job opportunities in Texas. I am officially done with California.
And no, I refuse to turn that amazing state blue.
You only need one law - Treat other how you would like to be treated. PERIOD.
*S PACE*
What if I'm a masochist?
live and let live. it doesn't need to be a law, but the golden rule is nowhere near as golden as people seem to imagine. the best rules give people enough space to live their lives while not getting in the way of others, the worst ones decry some sort of objectivity, as if to do a thing is unforgivable, or unjustifiable, no matter the circumstance.
Everyone agree on: Powerful people getting away with a lot of Nonsense.
Cheers.
You heard it here first from Katherine Mangu-Ward: John Stossell will probably die of heart disease!
;-)
But seriously, we don't hear the good news often enough. And I really like the flip cover of the issue. Kind of reminds me of the old Ace Double novels.
Anyone who says that managing or developing society is easy is either a charlatan or a simpleton.
While this may be true- it’s also true that depression, anxiety, addiction and suicide are at record highs.
It's because people are over stimulated in modern society. We have access to things that our ancestors never had. Just be aware of your habits.
How does the media make more money? By scaring people more. Outrage and fear sell. Studies have shown that social media causes an increase in anxiety.
We live in an era of fear mongering.
Depression, anxiety have always existed. It's just that people in the past didn't call them that way, and weren't viewed as diseases. It was just life. Now we've gotten better off and more sensitive, we care about them and make them national issues.
And I'm pretty sure drug addiction was worse during the crack epidemic. Addiction just means people are bored.
It's because of broken families. Broken families is due to the left and their welfare state. And the left feeds on bitterness and ingratitude.
when did they start measuring?
Breaking this hour! TUNE IN! Life is beautiful.......
Just fantastic!
Thanks reason, much better than yesterday’s video.
Life if TREMENDOUSLY better!
Even on the farm, we now have technology my grandparents would have given their eye teeth for!
Your grandparents eyes had teeth 🙏🙏🙏
What are eye teeth?
@@mstrainjr
Canine teeth in the upper jaw
Living be grateful for our life ! Just like "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder! " 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Katherine Mangu-Ward is my favorite!
Good on ya, Stossel. You and Remy are the only reason I'm still subscribed to the trash-fire that is today's Reason.
Stossel and Remy aren't conservatives either
@@tommyanomaly6193 I don't give a shit if they're liberal, conservative, or lemon-cream-filled. They do good work, and show good thinking.
It's not that bad, lot of trump bashing, but he's an idiot so I dont mind.
@@lastnameeverfirstnamegreat5656 It's worse than "that bad." If it were just personal, it'd be just Trump Derangement Syndrome. But every week they come out with some bullshit that's more Green Party than Libertarian. No borders, wall is bad because butterflies, deregulate abortion, American tariffs are bad but foreign ones are fine, Republicans are coming for your Internet (slander), Yay for Postmodernism--everything Gillespie touches is a flaming Lefty dumpster that I have to assume is trying to scrub any traces of conservatism out of the LP.
Really? He claims that food quality is getting better, and as an argument says that some place in New York serves pretty good meatless burgers. So much reason, he should get a Nobel Prize! xD xD xD
Perspective... It does a body good!!
Amid all the doom and gloom in today's headlines, I'm glad this is pointed out. There is much to look forward to. And with germline genetic engineering, there may come a day when we can use CRISPR to protect our children from such hereditary illnesses as cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell anemia, Tay-Sachs disease, and heart disease.
I don't see how sticking kids in refrigerator drawers protects them from anything.
This has been my assertion: hundreds of millions of us get along with our neighbors, are friends with people of different races, have access to medical care that is the best in history. However, I don't believe that many elected officials are reasonable and thoughtful; political panderers is my assessment.
Objectively life is getting better, but spiritually we're in the toilet. Drug deaths, suicides and "depression and anxiety" rates going up.
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!
Socialism is not the opposite of capitalism. It is capitalism's shadow.
I like Michael Humer's idea of having two parallel congresses, the regular one that makes laws, and a second one that repeals laws.
46% of Canadians and 70% Americans live 200$ from delinquency and live paycheck to paycheck respectively.
Citation needed; however, even if it's true, they also have plenty of food, clothing, housing, and no one is dying of starvation or war. Conditions in these countries are better than any time or place in human history.
We have some problem, but nothing that can't be fixed if we don't screw it up with things like socialism.
@@Nick-rd5xs Really? Thousands of US soldiers have died in recent Israeli wars and they want more.
@@SuperFinGuy I'm not unsympathetic to the point of view that we shouldn't be engaged in combat overseas, but there are no wars on our home front. Our soldiers volunteer and are willing to put their lives on the line. You don't get a choice in a socialist country.
Calling them "Israeli wars" is idiotic. The Taliban struck the US, ISIS attacked Syria and Iraq. Every western country feared Iraq's fake WMDs because of Saddam's saber rattling and bad intelligence (even British intelligence thought they were there). We probably shouldn't have gone there, but the world is a better place without Saddam.
Because the left has told them that a life that's not lived 20X better than the average Sri Lankan is not worth living, so they spend themselves to the brink.
This video had many good truths.
she'll vote for Trump 2020 God bless America!
Dear Reason TV, its not always just about surviving the battlefield. But combating the demons that come back with you. Just because we can't agree on the number of veteran suicides doesn't mean it isn't an issue. (Going on eighteen years for the one percent, that serve)
I LOVE Kathryn's positivity
Here's what's not getting better: popular culture, especially music.
NEWS, MUSIC, VIDEO GAMES, MOVIES, EDUCATION, PARENTING, CULTURE, CARS, CLOTHING, ETC. ARE GETTING WORSE!
This is why history is so important. The fastest route to unhappiness is ungratefulness.
@2:23 this graph means nothing when you don't label the Y axis.
Number of war related deaths as a function of time (in years). Cmon, the X axis is time in years (1946 - 2016), and the Y axis is mentioned in the title... the title of a graph is the most important thing.
@@odilsonbraz2239 , how many in 1946?
@@zzzanon More than there are today... if you want the exact value of a point from any graph, you go for the data base and not the graph itself. The graph is there to show trends (the reason why no one graphs a constant).
Having UA-cam alone. Makes life better!!!!
I MISS A LOT OF MY CHANNELS WHO WERE CENSORED OUT BY GOOGLE. IT'S GETTING WORSE AND WORSE. SOON IT WILL BE ALL LEFT WING MEDIA LIKE TV.
Life is indeed good... if your checking account can afford it.
lmao, I know people who work a call center and still afford to live well.
Personally, I will NEVER believe both John Stossel and the woman from "Reason" magazine because they exaggerate, with their right-wing propaganda, about life getting better. Especially in the United States. But what I want to know is: How about income inequality, homelessness, poverty, and corruption in just about certain parts of the world as well as America.
As we get more skeptical of government life gets better. The more we choose not to follow them blindly into war or whatever they use to make themselves relevant, the less we suffer.
Stossel is the man. Reason is.
Katherine Mangu-Ward is awesome.
Totally agree....so sad that most people think the world is going to hell when things are going well
Is a transcript available?
America is awesome y'all
This video didn’t age into COVID too well.
Bad job stossel. This segment is so easy to disprove. Economics, jobs, war.., there is a difference between optimism and statistics.
Disprove it then.
For the level headed youtube audience, no thanks. However you can do your own research.
His war involvement graph compared us to WWII plus it was impossible to look at the last 20 years. We've been at war nonstop for 20 years and bombing 7+ countries. Trillions of dollars and wasted spending, funneled to Defense contractors. Thats not a very libertarian thing to be in favor of.
@@HouseJawn- No one in the video said that they were in favor of war. It was presented as a negative that has seen a general downtrend.
2019: Pestilence is on the decline.
2020: Hold my beer.
It's still not that bad due to modern medicine
Dennis Prager: “the world is getting worse and worse, but people r feeling better and better about themselves while it does.” I’ve never disagreed with someone more
He was referring to spiritual rot. Dennis Prager has plenty of videos talking about the how the material world is improving.
Ok but is anyone else scared of overpopulation
Bullshit, we are not doing better. We are unhappy for some reason, and we make less than our parents made in the 80s and work 100 hour weeks.
We are unhappy for some REASON. Stossel's been there all along, I know it now!
>Life is Getting Better
Not mine.
You just need to eat a meatless burger like that fat lady, it's the highest quality of food based on this channel lol
So identity the problems and fix them. Or wallow in self pity and stay miserable. Your choice.
Free Market is the cause. The Invisible Hand of Self Interest. Politicians have become Career Politicians, governed by their own self interest and there in resides cause.
Solution to the problem in Government?
Real Term Limits. One Term and that is it.
Abolish Direct Campaign Donations and Lobby.
Abolish the Government right to prosecute with out a real victim.
Abolish direct taxation of income.
Abolish Federal Borrowing.
Return the Fed Bank to it's original design of banker of last resorts for banks and business no Fed Gov borrowing practices.
Abolish Political Pensions.
Debt to Equity swap on current Fed Gov Debt.
Another fantastic video from John Stossel!
Doesn't this feel like propaganda though, with ReasonTV putting out a video about what ReasonTV magazine says and stating it all like it's true? That's like Jehovah's Witnesses proving their beliefs using books printed by the Watchtower Society.
Mace Strain: "In the name of youtube, you are under protest, Mister Stossel!"
Stossel: "Are you threatening me, Mister Strain?"
Mace Strain: "The internet will decide your fate."
Stossel: "I AM THE INTERNET."
Mace Strain: "Not yet."
Stossel: "It's REASON then..."
@@nanyakoncerno7295 This is genius 😛
No doubt technology has gotten better, but first necessities are still hard to get, like food, clothing and shelter. Not to mention that most people are still laborers, the culture has degraded and we have far more government restrictions now.
Food and clothing are cheap, generally speaking. I recently got some plain colored tshirts for $2 each, new. That was clearance, but they were less than $4 even at full price. Jeans at Target are about $20. And then there is second hand if that's more than you want to spend. As to food, many vegetables and fruits are a buck a pound or less. Potatoes are dirt cheap, as is rice, beans, etc. Chicken and pork are often $2 a pound or less. Shelter depends where you want to live. Government has made that expensive in many areas by restricting supply.
@@pete1853 Today it's not easier to get food. The price of bread, for example, increased exponentially. A hundred years ago a loaf of bread cost about 0.07 dollars.
You can't buy a loaf of bread at HEB for $1.28. Cry me a river.
Well I still would like the fed gone and the gold standard back.
Censor Duck the gold standard existed for less than a hundred years. And even during that time, it was completely fucked during the Alaskan gold rush and then the Johannesburg gold rush, which, considering about 50% of known gold still sits under that city, would make them very disproportionately important in the world.
@@Pantsinabucket Pretty sure gold as a currency has existed as far back as the time of antiquity. And I'd trust gold backed currency over a currency that can be printed at the whims of the government.
@@censorduck Gold has been used since antiquity, but only during the Lydian Empire was it ever used as a major coinage, gold has always been a sort of novelty or extremely high value coin, and silver was what backed money up until the mid 1800s, when the British ran out of silver after exporting it all. Silver in China traded at a ratio with gold of ~10:1, whereas in Britain, it was ~15:1, leading to Britain quickly running out of silver and establishing the gold standard shortly before the Opium Wars.
AND BOY, ARE POLITICIANS BANGING OUT LAW AFTER LAW AFTER LAW. IF THEY EXPECT US TO FOLLOW THEM, THEN WHERE IS THE MANUAL??? IT'S A DISGRACE THAT WE HAVE SO MANY AND MANY FRIVOLOUS ONES ALSO.
Life getting better according to the Koch brothers. Reason tv has no agenda here right?
We have First world problems....
READ John Glubb - Fate of Empires (24 page PDF essay) History is repeating itself.
What about families and birth rates?
This aged well...
Here's a lot of doom and gloom about people who are focused on doom and gloom too much. True, but also ironic. Here's a thought: maybe the reason things are so good in today's era, is because people are never satisfied and are always looking to find new problems and fix them.
"they shall say, 'peace, and safety', then sudden destruction will come upon them".
"... I will make Jerusalem a stone that the nations will trip over..."
The middle east will be the grenade that lights near-extinction global distress.
Matthew 24
Mark 13
Luke 21
Daniel
Revelation
I'm very skeptical towards their "the market is good philosophy". A completely free market is not something you'd wish... just look at the US. A free market is basically the same as evolution by natural selection where "natural" is now our market environment. The thing about evolution by natural selection is there are a lot of losers and those losers will be the individuals' whos environment/genes didn't teach them to "win". I'm not saying a market is bad but there must be some kind of control. Besides that, it's a great video showing a positive angle to our world.
The USA is far from a completely free market, but we are free-er than most. I'd say that in most areas we have just the right amount of government control.
for examples where antitrust failed, just check Google, Facebook
@@MegaYoda2 Google and Facebook work with the government to collect data for the intelligence agencies. Thats part of how they can be "free" services to users.
Just imagine living in 1920 with not internet.
Then c0vid and February 2022 came
Lol. I work with two grown women below 4'9" tall. If they're in a car with their parents do they have to use a booster seat?
Well, they don't 'have to' - unless of course they want a badgefag to escalate the force continuum against them. I guess they could ask for the evidence which proves the Constitution and laws of Washington apply to them for the sole reason that they are physically present in Washington - but they would probably get tasered.
The potential of an individual now is more robust and dynamic than ever before.. sounds pretty great!
Who here cuz of homework?
Evolution has trained me to see a woman with strangely colored hair and be afraid that a feminist REEEEEEEE is about to start. She seemed normal, evolution has betrayed me.
OMG! I THOUGHT THE SAME THING!
Stop watching the news-I used to be a news junkie but since this pandemic I realize that the people plugged in 24-7 are the most paranoid and hysterical and I'm not willing to go along with that...
Life is so terrible here that our southern border is being over run. Because you know life's better in Central America and those folks are just tired of winning. lol
Presuming the fine for a dog leash thay's the wrong length is true: how much more totalitarian can they get? They even regulate(tax) the air you breathe, by levying carbon taxes to reduce CO2 -> photosynthesis -> oxygen production.
I think her life got better.
Moral decay and rampant degeneracy. The constant breakup of families, true communities don't exist, religion being replaced with political ideology, fundamental rights being eroded by the people who are supposed to protect them. Everyone's getting more comfortable but that isn't happiness. Bread and circus doesn't fill the void in the soul.
This is a philosophical argument that goes beyond our time. I wondered how in the future of Star Trek, there's no wars, no major diseases, no poverty, no discrimination, no crime, basic freedoms for everyone but no capitalism...what motivates anybody do anything? Wouldn't everyone be lazy and self indulgent? A new outlook had to emerge where people are interested in bettering themselves. If you have all your basic needs met, you might get bored enough to try to make yourself better. I guess. It is just science fiction/fantasy.
Ahh, finally a voice of reason. Get it.
Says that we're living longer and better lives, forgets that life expectancy has declined for 3 straight years.
Not in America...my dad just outlived his by 17 years
I notice the video tiptoed around the fact that we're fucking up the environment but, hey, who needs the natural world anyway.
Life is better. Overall. But now nobody has any disposable income to do things with. It's all going towards living expenses and taxes. So, life might continually be getting better if you make $40,000 a year, but that's about it.
It is true. Technology has improved out standard of living by leaps and bounds and I just read the the upper middle class increased to now 19% were is was approximately 15% before. So that is very good news!
You claim that food is of better quality now because.... we can get a meatless burger somewhere in New York? How stupid of an argument is this?
More like there are more food choices
Secular left-wing libertarians making the case for our current and unfolding postmillennialist reality.
Jobs are interesting now(video of work back then in black and white now in color) this made me laugh
How the fuck were they supposed to get old color footage?
Life in the USA is pretty cushy. Don't believe that? Travel overseas for a few months.
This is pure propaganda
Go back to bed, everything is fine
Check Steven Pinker's "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined"
Reason: Life expectancy dropped recently
Also Reason: People are living longer healthier lives 🤔
The general trend is towards longer lifespan, with a recent, so far small, downturn.
Pete We peaked, and have begun a downtrend. The suicide rates alone should tell you everything isn't rainbows and sunshine.
@@DegreesOfThree And the higher rates of inceldom among young men. And the huge drop in reproductive health
@@destroya3303 pussy men
"scientific research continues and productivity is increasing thanks to automation, therefore, life is better" - reasontv
"Some burger joint has meatless burgers, therefore food quality is the best it has ever been" - ReasonTV
@@SlavaEremenko Compared to the shit average brands you could buy at grocery stores in the early 1990s, we are like hedonists with all the gourmet stuff.
But nobody says technology has been getting worse. Divorce rates are though. Drug abuse is rampant (and that includes pharmaceuticals). Obesity, isolation, and as you mentioned an ever increasing government intruding into our lives.
In terms of savings many are in deep debt with not even enough saved for a month of emergency funds. Society is degenerating as technology is improving.
Des Troya San Francisco, LA, and Seattle are definitely not improving, unless you enjoy dodging needles and poo on your way to work.
@@DegreesOfThree Thank the state and big daddy government for that putting a lot of useless legislation onto its population.
Choose your attitude, choose your life. Gratitude or victimhood?
THIS IS SO TRUE!
I wish this was true
Thanks John. I really needed this.