[mjp]

1) Extreme poverty has fallen
2) Hunger is falling
3) Child labor is on the decline
4) People in developed countries have more leisure time
6) Life expectancy is rising
7) Child mortality is down
8) Death in childbirth is rarer
18) More people in the world live in a democracy now
21) Moore’s law isn’t quite over yet
22) Access to the internet is increasing
23) Solar energy is getting cheaper

thanks to

expanding capitalism, which expands total productive ability, which expands economic progress, which expands mass wealth and mass prospertiy due to :
increased rationality
capital accumulation
increased respect for natural rights such as freedom and provate property
technological advances and technological progress

[Baynative]

The benefits of capitalism are somehow shaded by the media. It is amazing to see what people will accept as factual.

All the while we are watching a mass migration coming north and even though it is a politically hyped production the people being used are hoping for a chance at a future where they have hope ...hope delivered by a free market capitalist economy.