Name: The Best Time to be Alive is Today - Objectivum Docs
Uploaded: 2022-02-09T20:00:15+00:00
Duration: 10 min 14 s
Description: Despite many not believing it to be the case, today is the best time to be alive in human history, and empirically speaking, it is not even close. I start with a quick take on a possible worst time in

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Despite many not believing it to be the case, today is the best time to be alive in human history, and empirically speaking, it is not even close. I start with a quick take on a possible worst time in human history so we have something to compare to today. Then I get into the myriad details as to why this is the best time period. I also show evidence that we still have a long ways to go. Then I finish with the evidence as to why people have this false view of the world and many not viewing this as the best time to be alive.

0:00 Intro
0:13 Chapter1: Worst Time in Human History
0:23 Two Major Epidemics
0:41 Two Devastating World Wars
1:01 The Holocaust
1:10 Great Depression and Dust Bowl
1:23 Chapter 2: Making the Case for Today being the Best Time Period
1:25 Infant Mortality Rates
1:35 Life Expectancy
1:42 World Poverty Rates
1:47 Annual Working Hours
1:57 War Deaths and Great Power Wars
2:08 Pace of Technological Progress
2:40 Knowledge Doubling Curve
3:16 Adoption of Technology
3:27 Worldwide Famine Rates
3:38 Democracy vs Autocracy Rates
4:02 Worldwide Homicide Rates
4:05 Car Accident Deaths
4:13 Plane Crash Deaths
4:17 Occupational Death Rates
4:19 Natural Disaster Deaths
4:23 Literacy Rates
4:32 Chapter 3: We still have further to go
4:57 Poverty Rates still too high
5:12 Chapter 4: Statistics of How People View the World
5:15 Ipsos Poll
5:20 NY Times Article/Poll
5:39 Chapter 5: Why Do People Not View this as the Best Time?
5:54 Tauberg - How Does News Coverage Differ Between Media Outlets
6:03 Leetaru - Cultoronomics 2.0: Global News Media Tone
6:15 Chapter 6: Why are People Drawn to Negativity and Sensationalism
6:20 Negative Feedback Loops
6:54 Negative Superlatives in Titles
6:59 Newsstand Negative Tone Sales
7:07 YouTube Search: Today is the Best time to be Alive
7:25 Human Evolutionary Traits
7:29 Soroka Blog Post: More Attention is paid to Negative News
7:44 Evolutionary Explanations
8:10 80% of Thoughts are Negative
8:17 Verywellmind.com: Negativity Bias Research
8:26 Negative Outcomes are more motivating
8:32 Negative News More Likely to be Perceived as Truthful
8:46 2020 Worst Year?
9:04 Algorithmic Amplification
9:18 Echo Chambers
9:25 Negative News and Mental Health
9:45 Do Some Research!
9:52 Outro

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BLACK PLAGUE
Is COVID-19 the worst pandemic? (nih.gov)
List of epidemics - Wikipedia
WORLD WAR I
List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll - Wikipedia
https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/eo3mnj/comment/fe94srb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
(3) What was the most devastating war in human lives, adjusted for world population? - Quora
https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-most-devastating-war-in-human-lives-adjusted-for-world-population
GREAT DEPRESSION+DUST BOWL
Unemployment Rate by Year Since 1929, Inflation, GDP (thebalance.com)
Unemployment Rate (UNRATE) | FRED | St. Louis Fed (stlouisfed.org)
Unemployment in the United States - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_in_the_United_States#:~:text=The%20unemployment%20rate%20has%20varied,and%2014.7%25%20in%20April%202020.
NOW…
INFANT DEATH RATES
https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality#child-mortality-around-the-world-since-1800
LIFE SPAN
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy#rising-life-expectancy-around-the-world
WORLD POVERTY RATES
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty#historical-poverty-around-the-world
AVERAGE WORK