Ebola, Ukraine, Gaza, Malaysian Airlines MH370 & MH17, Terrorism, Mass Protests, Robin Williams' suicide and plenty other things were beamed into our skulls in 2014, but Bill Gates is ever the optimist.
Being exposed to the media, you can be forgiven for thinking that things are constantly getting worse and worse. Simply put, fear sells. If it bleeds, it leads. It is very easy to be cynical ... [ read the full article ]
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Now Mr. Gates is definitely an optimistic person always seeing the glass half full, and that's good. But one should point out to him that even during the first or second world war, there were somewhere on earth people living peacefully and w here there surely was some advances in certain areas.
13 million less children dead is in fact phenomenal news, but go tell this to the families of the tens of thousands killed in Syria, to the families of all beheaded bu ISIS, to the suffering Ukrainians, to all those on unemployment in Europe or elsewhere, who see no prospects of improvement in their lives... I will stop here, because the list is very long.
However in some areas, indeed, there are some very good news, but is the world in a better shape now than it was last year or 10 years ago? Each one will have his opinion, but one should not forget that a pessimist is just a realistic optimist!
Originally posted by randyckay: Now Mr. Gates is definitely an optimistic person always seeing the glass half full, and that's good. But one should point out to him that even during the first or second world war, there were somewhere on earth people living peacefully and w here there surely was some advances in certain areas.
13 million less children dead is in fact phenomenal news, but go tell this to the families of the tens of thousands killed in Syria, to the families of all beheaded bu ISIS, to the suffering Ukrainians, to all those on unemployment in Europe or elsewhere, who see no prospects of improvement in their lives... I will stop here, because the list is very long.
However in some areas, indeed, there are some very good news, but is the world in a better shape now than it was last year or 10 years ago? Each one will have his opinion, but one should not forget that a pessimist is just a realistic optimist!
Yep pretty good points, my take in general more people are worse off. Some might be better off now then 10 years ago, but would have to say the majority of people are either slightly worse off to pretty damn bad worse off.
