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Anywhere you look online on the TV above the fold of the newspaper,

they're reminders that things are bad and probably getting worse.

Then there's Vox's Dylan Matthews.

Yeah.

He hosts a podcast called Future Perfect and it's all about radical ways to make the world a better place.

Yeah.

And contrary to almost everything you'll see or read out there,

Dylan actually believes the world is getting much, much better right now.

Yeah.

I think the news and social media platforms both have a kind of negativity bias.

I mean, thing goes according to plan isn't really a news story.

Thing goes badly or rise is a great news story.

And I think also things have been going less fantastic in America than they have in the world overall.

If you zoom out from the US and look at major trends in living standards for humanity as a whole,

the trajectory is pretty good.

President Trump delivers his second state of the union tonight,

but we thought we'd take a look at the state of the world with Dylan.

When he talks about the world getting better overall,

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