The Good Stuff | 2016 Was the Best Year Ever and It's Ok to Feel Bad about It @TheGoodStuff | Uploaded January 2017 | Updated October 2024, 4 days ago.
2016 was probably the best year in human history. But it sure doesn't feel like it.
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Zerek Dodson, Brayden Butler, Sam McCartney, Colin Young, Joseph Hegeman, Andrew Arrabaca, Jeff Brice, Matt Altieri, Cristina Quiroz, Torstein, Jeremy Nauta, Chris Hicks, Lars Hermann, Max, Yoselin Gallegos, and Ashley Beraneck.
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Todd Umhoefer (Old Earth)
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References:
fee.org/articles/the-world-is-getting-better-and-nobody-knows-it
motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/08/if-world-getting-better-why-do-we-all-feel-so-much-worse
singularityhub.com/2016/06/27/why-the-world-is-better-than-you-think-in-10-powerful-charts
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/01/26/the-world-is-getting-better-why-dont-we-believe-it/?utm_term=.793467eca0bd
theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/12/good-news-in-2015/421200
nytimes.com/2012/03/24/your-money/why-people-remember-negative-events-more-than-positive-ones.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
scientificamerican.com/article/why-our-brains-do-not-intuitively-grasp-probabilities
telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/is-2016-really-one-of-the-worst-years-in-history
waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/spectacular-video-putting-wwii-deaths-perspective.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Peace
factcheck.org/2016/07/dueling-claims-on-crime-trend
ourworldindata.org/world-poverty
psychologytoday.com/blog/the-young-and-the-restless/201112/the-process-idealization
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristics_in_judgment_and_decision-making
2016 was probably the best year in human history. But it sure doesn't feel like it.
Special thanks to our Patreon patrons:
Zerek Dodson, Brayden Butler, Sam McCartney, Colin Young, Joseph Hegeman, Andrew Arrabaca, Jeff Brice, Matt Altieri, Cristina Quiroz, Torstein, Jeremy Nauta, Chris Hicks, Lars Hermann, Max, Yoselin Gallegos, and Ashley Beraneck.
►Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thegoodstuff
►Subscribe: youtube.com/thegoodstuff
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Music By
Jason Shaw
audionautix.com
Chris Zabriskie
chriszabriskie.com
Todd Umhoefer (Old Earth)
oldearthcontact.bandcamp.com
References:
fee.org/articles/the-world-is-getting-better-and-nobody-knows-it
motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/08/if-world-getting-better-why-do-we-all-feel-so-much-worse
singularityhub.com/2016/06/27/why-the-world-is-better-than-you-think-in-10-powerful-charts
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/01/26/the-world-is-getting-better-why-dont-we-believe-it/?utm_term=.793467eca0bd
theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/12/good-news-in-2015/421200
nytimes.com/2012/03/24/your-money/why-people-remember-negative-events-more-than-positive-ones.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
scientificamerican.com/article/why-our-brains-do-not-intuitively-grasp-probabilities
telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/is-2016-really-one-of-the-worst-years-in-history
waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/spectacular-video-putting-wwii-deaths-perspective.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Peace
factcheck.org/2016/07/dueling-claims-on-crime-trend
ourworldindata.org/world-poverty
psychologytoday.com/blog/the-young-and-the-restless/201112/the-process-idealization
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristics_in_judgment_and_decision-making
