Thread by @samueleonelia

LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN SO GOOD

Global child mortality is at its lowest since ever #ThankYouCapitalism
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Life expectancy in the world is above 70. It was way lower. And now it continues to improve.
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The number of people with access to internet continues to increase.
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Less than 1 billion people live without electricity. And the number continues to decrease.
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Deaths from natural disasters are decreasing (even more if you consider only those due to climate disasters and not to earthquakes or volcanic activity)
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Our capacity to produce more energy (in the form of electricity) continues to increase. It’s still not enough to cover world needs (see /4). But we’re getting there.
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People living in extreme poverty around the world are less and less every year
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Even if world population is growing, always less people die of malnutrition.
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Today there are companies competing in the “space tourism market”.

Till the 50s the concept of “holiday travel” was unthinkable for pretty much everybody.

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There have never been so many literate people on the planet, neither in absolute numbers nor in percentage.
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The cost to launch something into space (Low Earth Orbit) has reduced by a factor of 20 (from 54,500$/kg to 2,720$/kg).
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Less and less children around the world have to work. Just few decades ago the situation was very different.
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AC makes summers and tropical countries livable at any temperature.
Roman emperors needed to rely on slaves for useless “fans”.
#ThankYouCapitalism /13

You can talk at no cost with business partners and clients while being on the opposite side of the planet. This was impossible just 20 years ago.
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Being an athlete is now a real job.
Before 1800 only ultra rich people had time for sports.
Everybody else was too poor.
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We can build huge amazing buildings, without the need for slaves.
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We have robots that take care of the most boring jobs.
So we can focus on more productive activities.
#ThankYouCapitalism
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