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Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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You need context. Things are more shitty than they were 10 years ago. Things are less shitty than they were 20 years ago. Things are MUCH less shitty than they were 50 years ago. The general trend is towards less shittyness (with the very important exception of the climate, which has been getting exponentially worse for 200 years (although in the past decade it's stopped getting exponentially worse and is now just getting worse, which is technically an improvement kind of)).