Take A Minute For 40 Things That Have Actually Gotten Better

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- By Daniel King, Mother Jones, Sept. 10, 2021.

It’s Friday. I’m gonna wager that you won’t agree with everything on this list of what’s “gotten better” in the past 20 years.

So, go ahead, order a la carte: On today’s menu is a seasonal assortment of purportedly good things crowdsourced by University of Virginia postdoctoral fellow David Walsh, who’d asked casually on Twitter:

- “What has gotten materially better in America in, say, the last 20 years?”

Answers rang in. So many that Reason magazine editor Elizabeth Nolan Brown compiled top entries, from

- “HIV care” to “better cannabis quality” to “home entertainment” to “information access.”

- Also in the winner’s circle:

“bicycling infrastructure,” “digital reading experience,” “automobile efficiency and safety,” “acceptance of neurodiversity,” “restaurant food variety and quality [including vegetarian and vegan],” “cameras,” “digital video,” “smoking rates,” “getting dressed,” “hygiene products,” “being a nerd,” and, uh, an inappropriate one.

If you can access each.

As you were.

https://www.motherjones.com/recharge/2021/09/take-a-minute-for-40-things-that-have-actually-gotten-better/

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1. Some of the things used to distract

us from the horrors of reality have gotten better, but things that actually matter have gotten worse. Our democracy no longer exists. Most of us will never be able to retire. The internet turned out to be a cesspool. Fucking morons are given to big a platform to spew their stupidity. The environment is in a death spiral.

In my opinion, things have actually gotten worse overall. I will gladly embrace the sweet release of death when it comes for me. Man, I wish I was much older.