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Between 1991 and 2017, agricultural employment fell from 43% to 27% of the global workforce. Yet, humanity produces ever more food.

From skyrocketing internet use to the decline in cancer rates, here is a random list of 40 ways in which the world is getting better.

In 2016 a paper was published by 32 authors from 24 institutions in 8 countries that analyzed satellite data and concluded that there had been a roughly 14% increase in green vegetation over 30 years.

"Capitalism" has become a scapegoat for all kinds of flawed institutions and the problems they cause. Many anti-capitalist activists don't understand capitalism as an economic framework, nor do they realize how hypocritical their criticisms can be.

From skyrocketing internet use to the decline in cancer rates, here is a random list of 40 ways in which the world is getting better.

Si los rendimientos de los cultivos se mantuvieran en su nivel de 1900, la cosecha del 2000 habria requerido 4 veces más tierras de cultivo. Eso es casi la mitad de todo el planeta, en lugar del 15% necesario hoy. Entran Fritz Haber y Carl Bosch. #HeroesOfProgress

Anti-capitalism is popular because people enjoy the feeling of uniting against a common enemy. Many activists fail to realize that true capitalism is the best way of fighting the systemic and material problems they so passionately decry.

How was it possible for a private company to plan, build, and sell an entire suburb in less than two years, but impossible for a central planner to build one small building in almost a decade? A large part of the answer lies in "incentives."

The amount of labor that once bought 54 minutes of light now buys 52 years of light. The cost has fallen by a factor of 500,000 and the quality of that light has transformed from unstable and risky to clean, safe, and controllable.

Americans have been eating GMO foods for decades and there is not an iota of evidence that GMOs are detrimental to health.