People always attribute every superlative to <right now>.
159 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 25 May
Impressive display of recency bias and historical ignorance, but fascinating none the less.
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23 sats \ 1 reply \ @zuspotirko OP 25 May
I mean it's interesting, isn't it? For stuff like political division my gut feeling might agree. But looking at life expectancy and war is straight up incorrect. Third seeing music and fashion you just know that your mind is playing tricks on you.
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12 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 25 May
Crime is the one that jumped out at me. It's just objectively false that it's worse today, although it has been getting worse. The 60's and 70's had much higher crime rates.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @DiracDelta 26 May
Now run the actual numbers and you will see the present is far and away the best
https://civilizationmetrics.org
Doomerism is a psyop
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko OP 26 May
Exactly
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3 sats \ 1 reply \ @kingzing131 26 May
I feel likr many conservative bitcoiners have this issue as well.
Progress is happening so quickly and everywhere that its so hard to say whether what IS getting better or worse.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko OP 26 May
Happiness isn't getting better. Most other things are in the grand scheme of things
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 25 May
There's a stupid question from me. When do you think that America wasn't great according to data?
What I can see sitting far off from there there's no such data anywhere else that represents more greatness than America's in recent history. America is not great for nothing. Even with the highest debt under its belt 'America is great and Dollar is still worth around the globe.'
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 25 May
And where did this so-called "data" come from?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @IamSINGLE 25 May
So, according to this graph Amwrican aee living in the worst possible Era of US history? I don't think so.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kilianbuhn 25 May
The point is that that's what people think. Not that it objectively is.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @026180d3a3 25 May
"There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics."
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 25 May
"...And then, there's Reddit...".
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