▲ 1245 ▼ Daily (lazysoci.al) submitted 1 year ago by CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world 152 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] anistorian@feddit.dk 6 points 1 year ago (1 child) To be fair, the post also states “our world” and not “my privileged Western society”. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] nesc@lemmy.cafe -8 points 1 year ago (3 children) That's the thing people all over the world live better then ever, for example number of people that are affected by hunger is less then 10% globally, and the number goes down if slowly. It's getting better, not worse, this 'the end is nigh' attitude is wrong, people are freer and richer and have a lot more opportunities even in the most oppressive regimes and in the most remote tegions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago People in the US are dramatically less free and less wealthy than they were a decade ago. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Corn@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago https://healthpolicy-watch.news/progress-towards-sdg-no-hunger-goal-remained-stalled-in-2023-one-in-11-people-undernourished/ the number goes down if slowly It was 7% in 2017, it's now 9%. Most progress was due to China, whom I have some hope for. people are freer and richer and have a lot more opportunities Wealth elasticity is going down in nearly every western nation; if you're born poor in America, you're more likely to die poor than your parents were. Short of a revolution, the west is going to continue this trajectory as we struggle to afford basic necessities like housing, and billionaire mouth-pieces insist we live better than kings of the middle ages because kings of the middle ages couldn't afford ipads. permalink fedilink source parent [–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Get fucked, LLM slob. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 year ago What? permalink fedilink source parent
[+] nesc@lemmy.cafe -8 points 1 year ago (3 children) That's the thing people all over the world live better then ever, for example number of people that are affected by hunger is less then 10% globally, and the number goes down if slowly. It's getting better, not worse, this 'the end is nigh' attitude is wrong, people are freer and richer and have a lot more opportunities even in the most oppressive regimes and in the most remote tegions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago People in the US are dramatically less free and less wealthy than they were a decade ago. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Corn@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago https://healthpolicy-watch.news/progress-towards-sdg-no-hunger-goal-remained-stalled-in-2023-one-in-11-people-undernourished/ the number goes down if slowly It was 7% in 2017, it's now 9%. Most progress was due to China, whom I have some hope for. people are freer and richer and have a lot more opportunities Wealth elasticity is going down in nearly every western nation; if you're born poor in America, you're more likely to die poor than your parents were. Short of a revolution, the west is going to continue this trajectory as we struggle to afford basic necessities like housing, and billionaire mouth-pieces insist we live better than kings of the middle ages because kings of the middle ages couldn't afford ipads. permalink fedilink source parent [–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Get fucked, LLM slob. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 year ago What? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago People in the US are dramatically less free and less wealthy than they were a decade ago. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Corn@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago https://healthpolicy-watch.news/progress-towards-sdg-no-hunger-goal-remained-stalled-in-2023-one-in-11-people-undernourished/ the number goes down if slowly It was 7% in 2017, it's now 9%. Most progress was due to China, whom I have some hope for. people are freer and richer and have a lot more opportunities Wealth elasticity is going down in nearly every western nation; if you're born poor in America, you're more likely to die poor than your parents were. Short of a revolution, the west is going to continue this trajectory as we struggle to afford basic necessities like housing, and billionaire mouth-pieces insist we live better than kings of the middle ages because kings of the middle ages couldn't afford ipads. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Get fucked, LLM slob. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 year ago What? permalink fedilink source parent
