RS: Not Everything Sucks

Peter Diamandis mentioned that the world is in fact getting better and stronger. With the growth of technology, lower childhood mortality, etc we are progressing, yet the human race consistently tries to redefine wealth and poverty. Although I think this is true, I believe that progress in the human world is proven by how we use and react to newer and better technology. If things are better why are standard increasing? as he said it's a matter of perception; he is right in that and so I believe that in reality that standards change because economies and politics change. For example if the currency in Africa inflate, we will see the "real" affect of that. Thus, poverty increase, investment decrease, people save less, this effects development, and this leads onto a chain of affects (internationally). That is real.

In comparison to a century ago things have optimistically change, but I do not entertain the notion of the world reaching the pinnacle of greater health and wealth (this includes underdeveloped countries). I believe that the world in the near future will experience a severe duality. Meaning that while we try to move away and lean less on the natural economy, while be put our efforts on subsisting through technology, we cannot fully disentangle our selves from the consequences of our action towards nature/resources, lives, etc. I don't mean that we will fail and never see the rays of the sun, but that there are things that we can never fully disentagle ourselves from, due to the intricacies of the the systems we built.





Hans Rosling's video is amazing. Although, I think it went by too fast and it was oversimplified, he used the graph to explain the growth of countries from what they were to how they are today by naming the point of change for them. Basically in one whole paragraph he tried to name all the possible factors that affect the growth,the conflicting factors that stall some countries from moving at the same rate or up than some.