Unpopular opinion: The single best time to be alive is today, and we should all be radically grateful for the existing systems holding the world together. The world functions surprisingly well, especially given the amount of difficulty humans have cooperating with each other.
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The world today is the less broken, less corrupt, less unequal, and less impoverished. We are swimming in abundant consumer choice, entertainment, and economic mobility. Education is universally accessible without degrees and there is a shortage of talent.
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@zachtratar
Strong yes. Also think having the abundance mindset helps train the eye towards opportunities to create (vs consume) and share access (to capital, talent, expertise, etc).
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Nicholas Kristof had made this point in some of his reporting, including the number of people lifted out of poverty.
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I always think about this line from Richard Corliss: “In a golden age people usually just go around complaining about how yellow everything is”
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and given that (or despite it) we should be constantly working to push the world forward on every aspect
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@zachtratar
Agree, yet we must try hard and aspire to do even better, 1% per day per
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