# Why Things Have Never Been Better Even though if it may not seem that way due to the availability bias (the tendency of mass media to unduly increase the significance of worrying news, as described in [[Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman]]), it can be argued that **things have never been better for the human kind for reasons like the decline of war and increased life expectancy**. - [[Yuval Noah Harari Argues That What’s at Stake in Ukraine Is the Direction of Human History]] - [[Opinion Things Have Never Been Better]] - [[How the West (and the Rest) Got Rich]] - [[Sapiens]]