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by Eisenstein 8 days ago
Almost always, the future ends up being bad, but not in the ways we think it will.
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I bet 99.99% of people who have ever lived would say the future got better than when they were alive if they could.

This seems a silly statement

You are mistaking aggregate for specifics. It may be better on whole, but there are always aspects that are worse.
Got it, so your statement was meaningless
> I bet 99.99% of people who have ever lived would say the future got better than when they were alive if they could

This says much more about you, Last Man, than anything else.