Crime accross the board continues to drop year over year in the US. There is still a ways to go but pharmaceutical costs are down for things like insulin thanks to the generic availability. On top of the policy changes, medical advances are moving at blazing speeds. Clinical trials for stem cell treatments are popping up everywhere. Basically a cure for everything except cancer nowadays. College athletes are no longer legal slaves and are able to be compensated for the work and risk they put themselves up to week in and week out. It's an employees market for finding jobs. There are more companies looking to hire in all industries than there is available tradesman to fill the openings.
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You get to exist and understand that you do. That's pretty huge already, as far as I can tell.
I see no evidence that life is supposed to be easy, even if it is for the majority of us commenting here.
Thatβs an interesting comment. History and science have proven that we have evolved in a way that everything we do becomes easier. Arguably the end goal is that everything is easy (can be debated in many ways, even philosophcally), but thereβs no denial that humanity has done everything in its power to make things easier. Thatβs the whole point of the creation and use of tools
Necessity is the mother of invention. Laziness is the father.
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we have a lot of life saving technology medically that we use to snap people from the jaws of death so that the state can execute them later
WIN WIN WIN
Medical science.
I mostly just think worst and even better is hard to judge. We just exist here. Good and bad are just labels. And I find absurd to be an often more applicable one when it comes to the timeline stuff.
Instead of sleeping in a cave and spending all day trying to kill food with a sharp stick, you can use your pocket internet to have food delivered to your door. In your very comfortable living space. Thank you Science and all the smart people in history that brought us here. Life is not as bad as the losers would have us believe.
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The aliens haven't yet consumed our planet in this timeline. Consider yourself lucky.
You could have been born on Mars when it had water. All that's left is dust
Nuclear war has been mentioned a couple times but i feel it deserves elaboration: We've been real fucking close a couple times. There was a Soviet "nuclear counterattack station", or whatever, that got the "nuclear strike detected, fire retaliatory missiles" signal and the person responsible simply refused. The signal was due to a glitch, there was no attack. That guy probably saved millions and millions of lives by refusing to carry out his duty.
If you consider (potential) timelines being "close" to ours in terms of only a small number of things needing to change to get us there, the one where everything went to nuclear hell is very close to ours--but we're not in that one.
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Standard of living has been steadily improving in China since the revolution, and it has managed to develop in an overwhelmingly peaceful fashion. China has achieved astounding feats of engineering with projects like cross country high speed rail, and it's currently leading the clean energy revolution globally.
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I can think of a dozen ways to make it worse, so it's clearly not "the worst".
We got the Beetlejuice sequel we have now instead of the original script they had planned.
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Humans domesticated wolves in this timeline. Imagine being in one of the dogless hellscapes.
If you're wealthy, everything is better than ever before
In this timeline, princess Leias bun stayed intact. Wholesome.
Everybody here things it so funny to talk about how we'll all die ans it's all horrible but really?
Lifw is pretty good. Yeah, we're off worse off today than, say, 30 years ago, but compared to the 4 billion or so years before that? We're doing awesome.
We have direct communicationto anyone in the world in the palm of our hands. Even the poor got better and nicer food today than kings had 300 years ago. Life expectancy even over the past 100 years has gone up dramatically...
This "we're living in the worst times ever!" Is kind of like climate change deniers cherry picking a tiny sliver of a huge graph and say "see? Temperatures.are going down!" It's nonsense. Yeah, things got a bit worse.over the past decade, they'll get better again soon and we're still way better off than, say, 1980