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en43rs t1_ja71v3o wrote
Reply to comment by Afraid_Atmosphere781 in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator
Penicillin and vaccine that saved billions of people, the eradication of smallpox (which killed 300 million people on the 20th century alone), the end of high infant mortality rates, mass literacy, the end of massive war in the West, lasting peace in Western Europe for the first time in millennia, in 1900 around 70% of humanity lived in extreme poverty now it’s closer to 20%, …
Yes things may look bad. But we live in the best era of humanity.
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