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LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN SO GOOD
Global child mortality is at its lowest since ever #ThankYouCapitalism
/1 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-child-mortality-timeseries
Global child mortality is at its lowest since ever #ThankYouCapitalism
/1 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-child-mortality-timeseries
Life expectancy in the world is above 70. It was way lower. And now it continues to improve.
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/2 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL®ion=World
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/2 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL®ion=World
The number of people with access to internet continues to increase.
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/3 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-individuals-using-the-internet?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL
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/3 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-individuals-using-the-internet?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL
Less than 1 billion people live without electricity. And the number continues to decrease.
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/4 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-people-with-and-without-electricity-access
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/4 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-people-with-and-without-electricity-access
Deaths from natural disasters are decreasing (even more if you consider only those due to climate disasters and not to earthquakes or volcanic activity)
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/5 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-deaths-from-natural-disasters?time=earliest..2019&country=Drought~Extreme%20temperature~Extreme%20weather~Flood~Landslide~Mass%20movement%20(dry)~Wildfire
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/5 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-deaths-from-natural-disasters?time=earliest..2019&country=Drought~Extreme%20temperature~Extreme%20weather~Flood~Landslide~Mass%20movement%20(dry)~Wildfire
Our capacity to produce more energy (in the form of electricity) continues to increase. It’s still not enough to cover world needs (see /4). But we’re getting there.
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/6 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-generation?time=earliest..2018&country=~OWID_WRL
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/6 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-generation?time=earliest..2018&country=~OWID_WRL
People living in extreme poverty around the world are less and less every year
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/7 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-population-living-in-extreme-poverty?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL®ion=World
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/7 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-population-living-in-extreme-poverty?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL®ion=World
Even if world population is growing, always less people die of malnutrition.
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/8 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/malnutrition-deaths-by-age
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/8 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/malnutrition-deaths-by-age
Today there are companies competing in the “space tourism market”.
Till the 50s the concept of “holiday travel” was unthinkable for pretty much everybody.
#ThankYouCapitalism /9 https://spacetourismguide.com/space-tourism-companies/
Till the 50s the concept of “holiday travel” was unthinkable for pretty much everybody.
#ThankYouCapitalism /9 https://spacetourismguide.com/space-tourism-companies/
There have never been so many literate people on the planet, neither in absolute numbers nor in percentage.
#ThankYouCapitalism /10 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/literate-and-illiterate-world-population
#ThankYouCapitalism /10 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/literate-and-illiterate-world-population
The cost to launch something into space (Low Earth Orbit) has reduced by a factor of 20 (from 54,500$/kg to 2,720$/kg).
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https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/handle/2346/74082
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https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/handle/2346/74082
Less and less children around the world have to work. Just few decades ago the situation was very different.
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/12 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-incidence-of-child-labour
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/12 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-incidence-of-child-labour
AC makes summers and tropical countries livable at any temperature.
Roman emperors needed to rely on slaves for useless “fans”.
#ThankYouCapitalism /13
Roman emperors needed to rely on slaves for useless “fans”.
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You can talk at no cost with business partners and clients while being on the opposite side of the planet. This was impossible just 20 years ago.
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Being an athlete is now a real job.
Before 1800 only ultra rich people had time for sports.
Everybody else was too poor.
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Before 1800 only ultra rich people had time for sports.
Everybody else was too poor.
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We have robots that take care of the most boring jobs.
So we can focus on more productive activities.
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So we can focus on more productive activities.
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In all industrialized countries weekly working hours have decreased by a lot, but on average we’re all richer than in the past.
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/18 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/hours-of-work-per-week
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/18 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/hours-of-work-per-week
We can travel around the world in way less than 80 days.
And you don’t need to be a millionaire to afford such a trip.
This was impossible just 200 years ago.
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And you don’t need to be a millionaire to afford such a trip.
This was impossible just 200 years ago.
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We can
• store our knowledge online,
• and share it with one click.
In the past you had to be super rich. And even then a big physical library was impossible to transport around the world.
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• store our knowledge online,
• and share it with one click.
In the past you had to be super rich. And even then a big physical library was impossible to transport around the world.
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Once being an actor was a poor job. Most people didn’t have money (or time) to spend in that kind of entertainment.
Now we have movies, cinemas and Netflix.
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Now we have movies, cinemas and Netflix.
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In the past if your father was a farmer, you were going to be a farmer.
Now we can choose our career. And even change it multiple times during our life.
Because the entrepreneurs of the past 200 years have created an abundance of opportunities for us.
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Now we can choose our career. And even change it multiple times during our life.
Because the entrepreneurs of the past 200 years have created an abundance of opportunities for us.
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