Why Can’t We See We’re Living in a Golden Age?

Why Can’t We See We’re Living in a Golden Age?
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If you think that there has never been a better time to be alive — that humanity has never been safer, healthier, more prosperous or less unequal — then you're in the minority. But that is what the evidence incontrovertibly shows. Poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy, child labour and infant mortality are falling faster than at any other time in human history. The risk of being caught up in a war, subjected to a dictatorship or of dying in a natural disaster is smaller than ever. The golden age is now.

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