I knowof Steven Pinker and don’t agree with his conclusions. I even got a video debunking him you’re probably not gonna watch either

but when actually pressed for specific ways it has gotten worse, they are almost always arguing from a complete ignorance of history.

You’ve ignored my point about climate change. I’m quite sure that concerning history, I got a bit more nuanced takes than you do.

Lifespan is much longer, healthspan is much longer

Medical advances have been made, yes. Inpart due to, technological advancements. These are fundamentally good and not what I’m arguing against.

rapes are way down

How is that a result of technological advances and not social movements fighting for a brighter future?

murders are way down, torture is way down,

I doubt that, if you look at it globally. Israel is currently performing a genocide. I consider that murder.

dying in childbirth is way down

Again, healthcare advances.

incest is way fown, pedophilia is way down, starvation is way down

Not touching those points.

dying from wild animals is way down

Ecodiversity is way down and global pandemics are way up.

wars are way down

Are you kidding me? Did you live under a rock for the last 50 years?

Problems now for lots of the world are things like people bickering over who gets to be next to who when they pee and who called a “he” a “she”.

No, problems now for “lots of the world” is climate change, job insecurity, housing crisis, dangers of a global war escalation, …

This idea that the world is way worse than it used to be

Not what I said.

selfish brats completely oblivious of where we came from

Says the person who choses to ignore how much progress has been done through sometimes violent, social movements.