3 facts that should make you feel a little better

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Vast majority of these good news stats we hear from Roslingites-Pinkerites are due to one country, China, abandoning psychotic revolutionary Communism and becoming market-oriented and more liberal (not much more). Then some nearby countries enjoyed the side-benefits. But the median USA/European voter matters more for global policy.

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It's not pessimistic beliefs about global aggregate human well-being, but simply that

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The average person cares about the well-being of the following people in the following order: his or her children, immediate family, himself or herself, often the local community and sometimes the nation as a whole. If those people are not getting richer, expect pessimistic global politics.