Dr. M.A. Davis @mikedavis.bsky.social

Here is a thread from a historian about how things could be worse - in no particular chronological order. 🧵

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NeoTiamat @neotiamat99.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 04:13 UTC

It's not been a simple or straight line progression, but the last two centuries have seen people become freer and richer pretty consistently. My life is vastly better than my grandfather's, and unimaginably so than my great-great-grandfather's.

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Dr. M.A. Davis @mikedavis.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 02:14 UTC

1. We never did have a second nuclear war. Could have been a war in the early 60s that ends with a mildly irradiated US ruling a severely irradiated world (bad) - could have been a war in the early 80s that ends with civilization in the Northern Hemisphere mostly wrecked and billions dead. (worse)

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