Will People Born Today Have a Better Life Than Their Parents?
> Respondents in China are the most optimistic, and those in regions like Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East are especially hopeful compared to those in Western Europe. This is especially notable in countries like France and Germany, which are the 4th and 7th largest economies in the world, respectively.
It makes sense that more developed countries would have lower optimism. If the previous generation already had a decent quality-of-life, there's less reason to assume that the next generation will have it even better. Developing countries are more likely to have significant recent salient difficulties that the next generation will no longer have.
> If the previous generation already had a decent quality-of-life, there's less reason to assume that the next generation will have it even better.
I do agree that the rate of improvement may be lower for already highly developed countries. And that the difficulties solved in developing countries may have a much larger positive impact then small steps in more developed countries.
But there's no artificial upper limit to quality-of-life. You wont hit a barrier and be forced to stagnate and go down: there's so many issues in today's societies that need solving.
> Respondents in China are the most optimistic, and those in regions like Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East are especially hopeful compared to those in Western Europe. This is especially notable in countries like France and Germany, which are the 4th and 7th largest economies in the world, respectively.
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#developer-pro...
The bottom fifteen countries in this question are all European countries + Turkey + North America + Australia.
(France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, UK, Canada, Turkey, Austria, US, Sweden, Australia, Denmark).
Yikes. Didn't realize so many people around here do think that things are going downhill.