Disagree. People's lives are not improving. Apparently you don't read the same things I do. Over 70 million people in the world have been forcibly displaced --- a record high. Brookings Institute does show that extreme poverty has been dropping. But, at the same time, the wealth gap has increased exponentially. World homicide rates have been increasing. I would suggest you go to UNODC website and look at all their stats on homicide, violent crime, drugs. Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. have doubled in a decade --- more than cancer deaths. As far as medicine, have you looked at the incidence of people taking meds and compared that to outcomes? We have a huge increase, all over the world, in taking RX drugs (almost a 50% increase in the last 10 years) with virtually no change in life expectancy. That's largely due to the 'average person' trying to kill themselves by not keeping weight off, not exercising, not eating properly and running to the doc to get some magic pill to make up for their failure to take care of their health. Meds can't fix self abuse.
Ah, but, saaaay, 300 BC I bet there were more deaths/homicides per capita then than now
Good thing that retired sheriff had a firearm, he saved a lot of lives God bless him!
