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I just don't expose myself to the 24h news cycle very much. My life is good, the life of the people around me is good, and nobody is helped by worrying about things I can't change.
This.
News are the reason your mental health sucks ass. The world is doing okay actually if you just look around instead.
Or if you ACTUALLY care about real news:
CRIME is at an ALL TIME LOW in all western world
China and many other countries have taken a billion people out of extreme poverty
Communist dictators are loosing ground in south america
Inflation is back to normal levels
Solar panels and infrastructure IS becoming CHEAP
Etc
I don’t think inflation is normal here. It’s still about 8%.
I wonder whether these positive comments come from those that are well off.
It's not. It's around 3%
I live in Ecuador and crime overtook us here... There's some hope tho with new young president taking some action.
But in general the world is MUCH better as it was in the 80s for MOST PEOPLE.
unfortunately for those that were privileged before, it may seem untrue. But ask the average rice farmers grandkids if they're better off as their grandpa was....
I just checked, it’s about 3 here.
So I’m wrong, doesn’t seem like prices have changed much, but hey ho.
The economys still fucked though. People are still underpaid.
The economy’s always been fucked though. People have always been underpaid though.
90% of the world would be happy with those salaries...
Sorry, what salaries?
The underpaid ones
...
We just shouldn’t be in this position.
Absolutely the way to go. Everyone in my circle is doing better than they were 5-10 years ago. My outlook could be better if my country decided to nope out, uproot itself and settle somewhere sub-tropical, far away from the Russian border we now share, but since I am considering emigrating after finishing training anyway, I don’t worry about that too much.