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Lots of things are better. Off the top of my head:
Cancer is much more treatable
Many forms of surgery are better
GLP-1 agonists will lower obesity rates and improve life spans by multiple years
LLMs have made it much easier to get answers to random questions
Twitter has enabled free speech to a greater degree than ever before
Credit cards and ATMs just work in other countries now, where they didn't before
Most people have good navigation systems on their phone. In 2009, they didn't.
Electric cars are available now and have many advantages over gas cars in specific circumstances
Electric bikes provide a new form of transportation
I'm sure I'm missing lots. Personally I think the western world has gotten worse due to declining social connections. But 2 steps back, 1 step forward! There are many areas where things are better than ever.
Is this meant to be some joke?
No. Prior to Elon's takeover of Twitter, you were basically at the mercy of media outlets to filter things for you.
Even pre-Elon Twitter vastly increased the amount of information available to an average person, so long as it wasn't in the relatively small subset of things which were censored.
So basically cat videos, baby pictures and other content if approved by the Blue Tribe.
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