Let's talk about the impending apocalypse for a bit.

[Renton]

Last generation was the best time to be alive in human history up until that point. This generation is the best time to be alive in human history. Next generation will be the best time to be alive in human history. Everyone thinks things are so bad and on the wrong track, and yet all the graphs for human living standards seem to be hockey sticks pointing up.

The planet could probably support a human population of hundreds of billions, if not trillions. The vertical farms, 3-d printed steaks, and carbon sinks are coming. Not to mention a multi-planetary human race.

[Savy]

Last generation was the best time to be alive in human history up until that point. This generation is the best time to be alive in human history. Next generation will be the best time to be alive in human history. Everyone thinks things are so bad and on the wrong track, and yet all the graphs for human living standards seem to be hockey sticks pointing up.

The planet could probably support a human population of hundreds of billions, if not trillions. The vertical farms, 3-d printed steaks, and carbon sinks are coming. Not to mention a multi-planetary human race.

There has actually been lots of work done that shows this generation is the first generation that will be worse off than the one before it but ye I don't into all the back in my day, end of the world shite people spew.

[Renton]

There has actually been lots of work done that shows this generation is the first generation that will be worse off than the one before it but ye I don't into all the back in my day, end of the world shite people spew.

Certainly, transient dips in living standards lasting a generation are possible, but on a human history scale, I'm an optimist.

edited to add: Also, the studies you're referring to are isolating the relatively well-to-do first world people. If you take ALL humans, this generation is way better than the last one. Look at how much better the average Indian or Chinese person is doing now than three decades ago. Globalization / free trade and the impending collapse of Euro-socialism will take white people down a peg but the human race will keep trucking onward and upward.

[Savy]

Certainly, transient dips in living standards lasting a generation are possible, but on a human history scale, I'm an optimist.

edited to add: Also, the studies you're referring to are isolating the relatively well-to-do first world people. If you take ALL humans, this generation is way better than the last one. Look at how much better the average Indian or Chinese person is doing now than three decades ago. Globalization / free trade and the impending collapse of Euro-socialism will take white people down a peg but the human race will keep trucking onward and upward.

That's true, globally I'm sure things are on the up.