Despite our societal and cultural perception that the world is getting worse, more dangerous, unfair, etc., the reality is the exact opposite. POVERTY captured 50% of the world's population in 1950 but has declined to 9.2% in 2022. LITERACY has increased over the same period from 36% worldwide to 86%. LIFE EXPECTANCY has more than doubled over the last few centuries, increasing from 30 years, on average, to 72.6 years worldwide in 2022. From the 1700s until today, the rate of childhood death by age five fell from 30% worldwide to near 0% in most countries - the rate is about 6% globally. In the 20th-century, the rate of INFANT MORTALITY dropped 90% to 7.2 per 1,000 live births. MATERNAL MORTALITY declined almost 99% in the same timeframe to less than 0.1% per 1,000 live births. Worldwide there are now more obese people than those considered underweight. The rate of stunting fell from 33% of children under age five in 2000 to 21.3 percent in 2019. Even the percentage of the population victim to malnourishment has dropped from 15% worldwide in the early 21st-century to 8.5% in 2019. Violent crime has fallen dramatically, just since the 1990s in the U.S. alone. According to FBI and BJS statistics, VIOLENT CRIME fell 74% from 1993-2019 and PROPERTY CRIME fell 71% over the same timeframe. Since the 1800s the average workweek has fallen from 60 hours to 40 hours, with many 'gigs' allowing people to set their own schedules. As a result of this decline in hours spent working, and the overall wealth created in the 20th-century alone from industrialization, and despite the economic devaluation of currency and wars, most people are in possession of more money and spending it on luxuries rather than necessities that have themselves become cheaper. Despite the data and the overall quality of life increasing for virtually everyone on the planet over the last few decades and centuries nearly all media, movies, television, etc., constantly portray a dying world infested with crime, disease, war, discrimination, poverty, and the like.

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