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Essay: How Progress Creates Its Own Obstacles
23 Oct 2024 | Abstracted from Vox
"The world really is getting better. So why don’t people believe it?"
"Progress is an unusual state of affairs. It is not the default...you could argue that the biggest evidence against the narrative of progress is all in our heads...The US economy has not in fact gone down the tubes, and we are, in fact, making real progress on cutting carbon emissions...our political system make transformational change so difficult to achieve."
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