There may be justification for some of their fears
. Because headlines about bad news are more attention-grabbing, people often assume that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, even as their personal quality of life continues to improve. “Enlightenment Now”, Mr Pinker’s latest book, is an encyclopedia of the various ways in which living standards have increased in recent decades around the world, including in America.
Yet there are some signs that Americans’ general quality of life is no longer rapidly improving. The spread of opioid addiction has caused life expectancy to fall for three consecutive years. Since 2014 America has slipped from 20th to 25th in the Social Progress Index, a measure of living standards that ignores economic performance. It is the only rich country to have seen its overall score decrease in that time, thanks largely to declining ratings for health care and social inequality.
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