Is The World Getting Worse?

Alex Mell-Taylor
9 min readNov 8, 2018

It depends on who you are.

In an era of increasing nationalism, this question can be heard around the world. We hear it whispered by the elite as they build elaborate doomsday bunkers to stave off environmental collapse. We hear it asked nervously by professionals as they wonder just how long their chosen skillsets will last in an age of automation. We hear it screamed by people that don’t have a high school degree…

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