Quote Originally Posted by Taiko View Post
A little late but none the less:
For the majority of the earth's population life is poor, nasty, brutal and short.
That's quite a mischaracterization.

"poor" - most are poor by Western standards, but human perception of wealth is relative. Half of the population has by definition above-average wealth and they feel like it. Absolute material wealth is improving in much of the world as well.

"nasty" - ?

"brutal" - there' peace in most places. War and violent crime are the exception. The world looked very different in this regard in 1830.

"short" - 143 of 224 countries/territories in the CIA World Factbook have a life expectancy of 70 years or more. https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...data_2102.text That is certainly a huge change!