At the end of last year on CapX, I documented the constant stream of technological, scientific and medical breakthroughs that are improving the lives of billions of ordinary people. Given all this good news, the real question is why people are so unbelievably pessimistic. Judging by a 2016 poll of close to 20,000 people in some … Continue reading Things Are Getting Better, So Why Are We All So Gloomy?