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The onus of evidence is generally on the one making the initial claim: what evidence do you have that the modern world is actually getting worse?

But if you want evidence that we're improving, I'd point out that 20 years ago, the mainstream US position was that gay people were evil, 60 years ago they thought black people shouldn't be allowed to vote, and 100 years ago they thought women were also inferior and shouldn't be allowed to vote.

We can keep going back to when people thought "slavery" and "the divine right of kings" were solid ideas.

So... if people were so much smarter in the past, why did they believe all these obviously-dumb ideas?