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In a goal of progress, it’s best not to compare.
We could argue the world of today is better and in some ways it’s worse.
We don’t burn lead in gas anymore though perhaps in future there will be a better way to provide energy to transportation.
Minority rights are a lot further in many ways than they were before. tomorrow we will be much further than we are today.
The type of slavery we had before was far worse. We could still do better though.
People with 4th stage cancer actually have a chance now where they didn’t before. Hopefully tomorrow there will be a true cure.
Computers have made many jobs easier. Though they do have known flaws that it seems only computer scientists know about. General public still over fantasize computers are capable producing real life level intelligence today. One day someone will fix all those computational faults and then yea, computers will be super powerful but possibly even more scarier. Hopefully after that someone does reign it in…hopefully.
Internet made WFH a possibility which has lead to less impact on our environment with travelling. But it also made a direct gateway for scammers and pedos to be a lot more effective and dangerous. Perhaps in the future there will be a better way to prevent such activity.
On a political level I’d say we are way more polarized compared to what we used to be. This comes down to us though. Not just whoever is president. We are many someones who make up this world and have just as much to answer for acting like monsters while a monster rules a country.
there is always room for improvement.
your comment and most of the others has a us/first world centric view and that is expected, is there anyone from a developing or undeveloped country that can share their views on this?
Everyone's life can improve. Stop trying to divide the people against themselves.
We are all working class.