Why the World Is Better Than Ever (Thanksgiving Reality Check)

On this special Thanksgiving edition of Filtered with TJ Walker, we confront one of the biggest communication traps all humans share: negativity bias. TJ explains how our brains fixate on dramatic bad news and ignore decades of steady progress. He then walks through four powerful, data-driven ways the world has improved since 1962, from poverty and life expectancy to global education and declines in violent death. In the final segment, TJ shares how his own daily life has surpassed anything his teenage self in 1979 could’ve imagined, thanks to technology, information access, and democratized luxury. This is your Thanksgiving reminder that, despite the headlines, there is still a lot to be thankful for.

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