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Welcome back everybody.

Today we're going to talk about why you should maybe be a little bit more optimistic, a little bit happier.

And I think that would be a good thing.

I think one of the problems facing our society is a lack of gratitude.

This sort of overwhelming feeling that everything is worse than it's ever been before.

And that's a problem.

That's a deep psychological problem and maybe we'll hit that today.

But what we're really going to talk about is the objectivity of that assertion.

And whether it's really true or not, at least in the aggregate.

I don't want to take away from anybody's personal hardship.

But in the aggregate, and as certainly as it informs policy-making,

it helps us to have some context and some facts about what is true and what isn't.

When it comes to what is improved and what hasn't, and where we really are.

So we're having a repeat offender on, Marion Tupi.

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