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We are living in an age of unprecedented wealth, with millions entering the middle class every year. Homo sapiens live longer lifespans than ever before, with better nutrition, and better medicine than ever in our history. This is also the most peaceful time in our history, with record lows in crime and wars. The developing world is surging in wealth and in the west we have more opportunity and access to information than ever.
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This isn't a sharpshooter fallacy--that would mean the good things OP is noting are made "good" after they happen.
If you think this is an unfounded optimism because there are a lot more bad things (or that things have gotten worse over the last two centuries), there's an argument to be had there, but this isn't it.
I do think the bottom one is misleading. One of the reasons there's less global poverty is because the standards for what counts as being impoverished on these studies has gone down... Not living conditions going up. They just redid the studies in a way to make it look better for the stats.
It's a good thing to have less poverty but having less purely because you decided people can live on less now is misleading at best.
Nothing against OP, I just hate that specific stat every time it gets thrown around.