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[+] -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.

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  • [–] 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.

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