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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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[-] Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 10 points 9 months ago

I don't agree with the premise. The world on average is better than it has ever been and it just keeps getting better every year. It's understandable that heavy consumption of news might make it seem otherwise but virtually every metric you'd use to track this shows that things have been improving and keeps doing so.

[-] Jeremyward@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

As an overall metric, but some things have definitely gotten worse. The planet is on fire for instance. That's getting worse and we haven't even gotten into the really bad part.

[-] joostjakob@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

And we are still increasing the rate at which we are making it worse...

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