We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously

GFY

And what are the current values of the national debt & deficit?

Obama was president of the United States for 70% of it. Seriously.

just ask this 'lil fella...

So offensive, Thom. Really. I truly try to keep an open mind where your posts are concerned, but... the state of the planet being what it is, this is just fucking sad.

- or the worst decade in human history, depends on how rich you are and how rose colored your glasses are.

The list of fucked things man has done in the last 10 years is so long, if we all post just one, the thread could go 4 digets.

I'll start with this, 

1 - Depletion Of The Amazon Rainforest (Including The Indigenous People)

Our son was born. We're happy. 

Objectively, the author of the article is absolutely correct. It's better now, for more people in the world, than at any time in history. That's a fact.

Slackers happy!  Praise Hey Zeus!

Six trends of declining violence (Chapters 2 through 7)

The Pacification Process: Pinker describes this as the transition from "the anarchy of hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies ... to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments, beginning around five thousand years ago" which brought "a reduction in the chronic raiding and feuding that characterized life in a state of nature and a more or less fivefold decrease in rates of violent death."[3]:xxiv

The Civilizing Process: Pinker argues that "between the late Middle Ages and the 20th century, European countries saw a tenfold-to-fiftyfold decline in their rates of homicide." He attributes the idea of the Civilizing Process to the sociologist Norbert Elias, who "attributed this surprising decline to the consolidation of a patchwork of feudal territories into large kingdoms with centralized authority and an infrastructure on commerce."[3]

The Humanitarian Revolution – Pinker attributes this term and concept to the historian Lynn Hunt. He says this revolution "unfolded on the [shorter] scale of centuries and took off around the time of the Age of Reason and the European Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries." Although he also points to historical antecedents and to "parallels elsewhere in the world," he writes: "It saw the first organized movements to abolish slavery, dueling, judicial torture, superstitious killing, sadistic punishment, and cruelty to animals, together with the first stirrings of systematic pacifism."[3]

The Long Peace: a term he attributes to the historian John Lewis Gaddis's The Long Peace: Inquiries into the history of the Cold War. This fourth "major transition," Pinker says, "took place after the end of World War II." During it, he says, "the great powers, and the developed states in general, have stopped waging war on one another."[3]

The New Peace: Pinker calls this trend "more tenuous," but "since the end of the Cold War in 1989, organized conflicts of all kinds - civil wars, genocides, repression by autocratic governments, and terrorist attacks - have declined throughout the world."[3]

The Rights Revolutions: The postwar period has seen, Pinker argues, "a growing revulsion against aggression on smaller scales, including violence against ethnic minorities, women, children, homosexuals, and animals. These spin-offs from the concept of human rights—civil rights, women's rights, children's rights, gay rights, and animal rights—were asserted in a cascade of movements from the late 1950s to the present day."[3]:xxiv–xxv

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature