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How do you guys cope with the fact that the world isn't getting any better? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

With some ways of looking at things, the world as a whole is getting better, rather than worse.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190111-seven-reasons-why-the-world-is-improving

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-goalkeepers-report-poverty/671415/

I'm pretty sure long covid and climate chaos will put a stop to that soon enough but we'll see. For now, some stuff is getting worse and some stuff is getting better.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who should listen to oligarchs like Bill Gates? Philanthropy Is a Scam

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He's also the first one to be somewhere to lobby where a government decides to move away from windows, because it's gonna hurt his stock value

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He was also a major factor in denying the global south the IP-free vaccine production they had been promised.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I really hope we make sure to record in the history books that we absolutely had the capacity to save a heartbreaking number of human lives if we waived the vaccine IP and let India crank up production but instead we listened to murderers like Bill Gates who argued we had to protect intellectual property….

Pathetic is the only word for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Let's create a Wikipedia page :)