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🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Are you worried about your future? Turn on the TV or scroll through social media and it’s hard not to be. But is there a brighter side to the story? Marian Tupy, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and co-author of Superabundance, explains why it’s a great time to be alive.
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0:00.0 | Are you worried about your future? |
0:04.2 | Worse do you even have a future? |
0:06.7 | Many, especially those born in this century, are asking themselves these questions. |
0:12.2 | In 2021, researchers at the University of Bath in England pulled 10,000 people all over |
0:18.3 | the world between the ages of 16 and 25, 75% thought that the future is frightening, 56% |
0:26.3 | thought that humanity is coming to an end. |
0:29.0 | 39% stated that they were hesitant to have children because the future was so bleak. |
0:34.4 | Are there fierce legitimate? |
0:36.4 | Or is it possible there is another side, a brighter side to the story? |
0:40.8 | That we are, in fact, the most fortunate human beings ever. |
0:44.8 | Just how lucky are we? |
0:46.7 | The late great satirist PJ O'Rourke summed it up in one word, dentistry. |
0:52.4 | One could easily add electricity, air conditioning and, less we forget, indoor plumbing. |
0:58.8 | Luda 14th, magnificent palace of Versailles, had no proper waste facilities. |
1:04.1 | People relieved themselves where they stood, in hallways behind curtains and in the gardens. |
1:10.5 | One contemporary observed and noted that Versailles was the receptacle of all of humanity's |
1:15.2 | horrors. |
1:16.2 | The passageways, corridors and courtyards are filled with urine and fecal matter. |
1:21.6 | This is Luda 14th we are talking about, maybe the richest man on earth at the time. |
1:27.4 | Ask yourself this question, would you prefer to live in a studio apartment with electricity, |
1:32.9 | a window air conditioner and indoor plumbing or a Versailles palace with none of these things? |
1:39.6 | In 19th century London, American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson observed that no one wore |
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