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Comment by sien

11 hours ago

Yep.

Muddling through with markets, democracy and welfare.

Global life expectancy was 34 in 1913. Today it's 70.

https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

Global GDP was less than 1Trn until about 1800. In 1950 it was 11.7Trn . Today it's 157 Trn. In a life time it's gone up by more than 10 fold.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-gdp-over-the-long-...

People are living longer, richer lives all over the world.

The world's largest country grew at 7.8% last year.

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/why-indias-strong-gdp-gr...

Things are getting better. Look at the data, work at what you do and ignore the doom sayers.

I don't doubt that AI might increase the GDP but it will happen at the expense of the many.