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  • Hmm. Not sure about all that. Mine is a much more:
    Life is a bit shit.
    From
    TB in people, decreased services, bedroom taxes, pollution, war, famine, poverty, etc. and so on.

    tl;dr
    I need £10 pingers.

  • Life is a bit shit.
    From
    TB in people, decreased services, bedroom taxes, pollution, war, famine, poverty, etc. and so on.

    The world has never been a better place to live than it is now, and it's only getting better.
    http://humanprogress.org/
    It's easy to see the bad because a: that's all anybody ever wants to talk about and b: we have such a hugely increased access to information compared with even a decade ago that there's an order of magnitude more bad news to read if you care to look.

  • The world has never been a better place to live than it is now, and it's only getting better.
    humanprogress.org/
    It's easy to see the bad because a: that's all anybody ever wants to talk about and b: we have such a hugely increased access to information compared with even a decade ago that there's an order of magnitude more bad news to read if you care to look.

    As above, being of a certain age 60+ I think we live in great times. Off course peoples expectations are far greater these days but that does not negate the fact that the "good old days " were far from that for the majority of the population.

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