Why the world is getting better but no one notices
Imagine that things are getting better, hugely better, but no one knows. You might take me for a hopeless optimist in saying that things are getting better, but far from it, it is actually a cold look at the data that makes any other view seem nonsensical. It also hardly matters how you define progress, as the world and life in Germany is getting better in almost any regard. Want people to not be hungry? While even around 1980 almost half of humanity lived in extreme poverty, the number now is one in ten. Want world peace? Since the