There's nothing quite like doing research to make me realize how great now is:
-- I have only about 5 chances out of 10,000 to be murdered every year! Compare to 1300 CE, and this is amazing.
-- I'm on a sofa in a twenty floor building. I'm a hundred feet in the air, and its not even a big deal. Compared to, I don't know, the 19th century and this is amazing.
-- I have air conditioning! Nero never had air conditioning.
-- It is always as bright as I want it to be. I can read long into the night.
-- I have unlimited water. Hot water! Soap! A machine that cleans my dishes with minimal work from me. Also, my clothes.
-- I have a patio on the tenth floor apartment, and the glass doors are floor to ceiling. And its not even a big deal. Steel, baby.
-- Any book I want is free! Thanks to the public Library!
-- I can eat whatever I want, basically whenever I want.
-- Travel across the oceans is merely ruinously expensive, as opposed to dangerous and inaccessibly expensive.
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Please graph chance of random murdering throughout the ages!
ReplyDeleteHere's from marginal revolution just showing the US: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/06/long-term-trend-in-homicide-rates.html
ReplyDelete1700: 35 per 100,000!
Woah. Wtf happened from 1950-2000? Is that the war on drugs?
ReplyDeleteOh, and here's one from 1300 with several countries!
ReplyDeletehttps://ourworldindata.org/homicides/
No idea! From 41 to 45, a bunch of healthy young men we're gone, so that may be contributory to the reduction in the 40s. But, yeah, maybe that's our fight against our own urban populations.
ReplyDeleteShoes that last a long time and fit perfectly.
ReplyDeleteAnd, Jason Morningstar , are molded for left and right.
ReplyDeleteAll your children will almost certainly live past the age of five.
ReplyDeleteMy wife can choose the number of children to have; so can I, but it is more astonishing that she has the legal right to do.
ReplyDeleteInvisible, woman-controlled birth control is going to have a huge long-term impact for the better.
ReplyDeleteYou probably don't have intestinal parasites, and if you do they are easy to get rid of
ReplyDeleteRight, Robert Bohl . Its astonishingly important.
ReplyDeleteI like to say that there have been two great medical advances: penicillin and the pill. I got a lot of weird looks.
Jason Morningstar Plus, we are this close to eradicating the guinea worm.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jimmy Carter. You're a much better humanitarian than President.