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by 1-more 14 days ago
> The more I look back into history, the more I realise that besides the sparkling blinky-blinky gadgets, we have made no progress at all - on a species level.

2019–2020 world average life expectancy at birth was 72.6–73.2 years. In 1950 it was 45.7–48. In 1900 it was 31–32. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy