{"id":7934,"date":"2017-02-20T18:05:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T18:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fabricegrinda.com\/?p=7934"},"modified":"2023-08-29T03:49:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T03:49:34","slug":"we-are-lucky-to-be-alive-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ko\/we-are-lucky-to-be-alive-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"We are lucky to be alive right now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In these fraught political times, it\u2019s good to take a step back from the day to day minutia. In the grand scheme of things, global quality of life has dramatically improved. In 1820, 94% of the world\u2019s population lived in extreme poverty. Even in 1910, 82% of the world\u2019s population lived in extreme poverty. Until 1945, less than 10% of the world\u2019s population lived in a democracy.<\/p>\n<p>That is not to say that everything is perfect right now. Social mobility is stagnating and equality of opportunity has receded in many developed countries. We have not done a good job at helping those left behind by globalization and the technology revolution. We can and must do better. However, it\u2019s useful to express our gratitude for how lucky we are to be alive in these extraordinarily prosperous and peaceful times.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 500px; border: 0px none;\" src=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/grapher\/share-world-population-in-extreme-poverty-absolute\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 500px; border: 0px none;\" src=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/grapher\/literate-and-illiterate-world-population?stackMode=relative\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 500px; border: 0px none;\" src=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/grapher\/global-child-mortality-timeseries\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 500px; border: 0px none;\" src=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/grapher\/world-pop-by-political-regime?stackMode=relative\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these fraught political times, it\u2019s good to take a step back from the day to day minutia. In the grand scheme of things, global quality of life has dramatically &hellip; <a href=\"\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-economy"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"We are lucky to be alive right now!. Categories - The Economy. Date-Posted - 2017-02-20T18:05:28 . In these fraught political times, it\u2019s good to take a step back from the day to day minutia. In the grand scheme of things, global quality of life has dramatically improved. In 1820, 94% of the world\u2019s population lived in extreme poverty. Even in 1910, 82% of the world\u2019s population lived in extreme poverty. Until 1945, less than 10% of the world\u2019s population lived in a democracy.\n That is not to say that everything is perfect right now. Social mobility is stagnating and equality of opportunity has receded in many developed countries. We have not done a good job at helping those left behind by globalization and the technology revolution. We can and must do better. However, it\u2019s useful to express our gratitude for how lucky we are to be alive in these extraordinarily prosperous and peaceful times.\n ","Category":["The Economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12866,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions\/12866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}