The Future Is Bright Grim

I don’t want to trouble you with all of the predictions made by Atlantic’s experts on what the world will be like in 10 years but I will share this one:

This year, for the first time, we posed a question that we hope to now ask on an annual basis as a means of tracking sentiment on the global outlook: “Generally speaking, do you think the world a decade from now will be better off or worse off than it is today?”

60% that is nearly 2/3s thought that the world will be worse off in ten years than it is today.

Honestly, that’s something I miss today: the optimism that tomorrow will be better than today and whatever problems are, they can be dealt with.

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