It’s Time To Admit It: The World Is Becoming A Better Place

Business Insider: OK, Haters, It's Time To Admit It: The World Is Becoming A Better Place

The article includes this graph:

Then this one about poverty:

Many other graphs could be shown about a host of important social indicators, but the article closes with the most important one: life expectancy. Improvements in life expectancy require that a wide range of variables move in a positive direction. For that reason, improving life expectancy is often a proxy for overall well-being.

The author closes with the following:

So complain all you want about how horrible everything is. There's certainly a lot left to fix. But as you complain, remember:

The world is getting better all the time.

Preach it!