I’m really worried about the state of the US despite being a white male who was I’ll coast right through it. I’ll also accept “I don’t” and “very poorly” as answers

  • DarkGamer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Your perspective is distorted, things are incredible and getting better by most metrics.

    • The average person today lives better than kings of old.
    • We have abundant water, food, and sanitation. In America, food is so subsidized that it is ridiculously cheap by historical standards.
    • Your odds of dying to violence or disease have never been lower in all of human history.
    • You have all human knowledge at your fingertips, and technology is expected to keep improving our lives in novel ways.
    • You can visit any place on Earth in a matter of hours and have access to cheap exotic foreign goods.
    • Civil rights are protected a lot more today than they were in many/most civilizations of the past.
    • Entertainment is abundant and cheap, and takes forms that people of the past could only dream about.

    While we certainly have our challenges to overcome, like climate change, wealth inequality, and social problems, let’s not forget how good we have it.

    • ursakhiin@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      This is a great outlook. It’s important to not lose sight of the problems that do exist and try to work towards solving them, yes. But don’t lose sight of the positives, either.

      My answer to the question asked would likely be, I’ve been depressed my whole life, what’s another problem. Lol

      But we do have to recognize that in spite of all of the bad we can list, there’s a lot of good as well.