Progress
by Johan Norberg, Diego Sánchez de la Cruz, Laurent Bury, Mathieu Laine · first published 2016
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It's on the televisions, in the papers and in our minds. Every day were bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is-- financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that the economic and social progress of the past few decades has been unprecedented and that by almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive. Examining official data from the worlds most trusted institutions like the United Nations, the World Bank and the World Health
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If you're interested in upsides, I can highly recommend the book "Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future", by Johan Norberg [1]. I was able to borrow the audio book from my library... absolutely worth the listen. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress:_Ten_Reasons_to_Look_...…
on “Hetzner Price Adjustment (June 15th, 2026)” ↗This is too full of Silicon Valley VC language. ugh Go to the source materials. - Rational Optimist. Matt Ridley - The Better Angels of Our Nature. Steve pinker - Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future. Johan Norberg - the capitalist manifesto: why the global free market will save the world. Norberg - Wizard and the prophet. Charles Mann - Factfulness. Hans…
on “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” ↗Progress - Jonah Norberg About why the world is really getting better. https://oneworld-publications.com/progress-hb.html
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗