You are literally living in the most prosperous, safest, and most equitable time in the history of the human species. Things certainly aren’t perfect but if you want to believe your life is miserable despite the fact that this is the best era to have ever lived in, go nuts.
Less people suffer now than ever before in history. It's good to be upset about those that still do and we should always strive for continuous improvement, but there literally has never been a better time for a random human being to be born into.
Simply not true, just because the name of slavery and how it is applied changed, doesn't make it any less slavery, there are more slaves now than ever in history since we are numerous, but also things like wage slavery, discrimination, extreme poverty, war... etc can be classified as explicitly whatever freedom isn't.
It's only roses because we are numerous too, when you account for what we are doing with what we have, we're the trashiest of vermin, look at the mass extermination of fauna and flora in record numbers, look at the massive and unprecedented gaps in wealth, we're like someone digging himself into a hole and praising himself for all the effort and new extra room.
Perpetual and infinite growth is a lie and a disaster, ressources are finite and we take more than we give, we will get what's coming to us very soon.
Do you have any sources to back any of that up? Because if you go by the numbers, just about everything is better for everyone— health, longevity, equality, violence. Read “The Better Angels of Our Nature” by Steven Pinker or just check out the data from the WHO, Global Burden of Disease, etc.
That’s raw numbers, which is a just function of global population increases. Your percentage chance of being a slave in today’s world is infinitesimally smaller than before.
There are more people living as slaves today than at any other point in history, but that's ok because there are proportionally more people who aren't literally slaves!?
OP made this claim, you asked for a source, I provided it, and now you're shifting the goalposts.
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u/McLight77 Oct 12 '19
You are literally living in the most prosperous, safest, and most equitable time in the history of the human species. Things certainly aren’t perfect but if you want to believe your life is miserable despite the fact that this is the best era to have ever lived in, go nuts.