Check out the Business Insider set of graphs showing how much better things have gotten in the last few decades or the last century.
31 Charts That Will Restore your Faith In Humanity.
A few of my favorites:
- Democracy’s in. Autocracy’s out.
- People used to die at 47. Now people are living to 77.
- Infectious diseases in the U.S. are pretty much gone.
- It’s never been cheaper to fly.
- Or safer
There has never been a better time to be alive.