Despite constant warnings about threats that are already underway, such as climate change or other possible pandemics, Bill Gates says he is “very optimistic” about the future of humanity. The co-founder of Microsoft says that, despite these and other challenges, those born in the coming decades they will be in a much better time than those born at any other time in earth's history.
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“I remain very optimistic that it will be much better to be born 20, 40 or 60 years from now than at any time in the past”, the billionaire pointed out in an interview last Monday, 23.
Despite this possible promising future in the eyes of Gates, all the news and data about the current situation of our planet have not gone unnoticed by him, such as inadequate responses and attitudes during the Covid-19 pandemic or governments that failed to meet minimum targets to slow down global climate change world. Not to mention the political polarization that seems to be affecting the entire globe, including the United States.
In the month of October last year, a survey found that only 42% of Americans believe that today's youth will have a better standard of living than their parents. This number is 18 percentage points lower than that recorded in 2019, which ties with the lowest level of optimism in approximately 30 years, according to similar surveys carried out in the past.
Gates attributes this pessimism to the lack of ability to interpret the whole context, having pointed out advances in the public health sector, a decrease in global mortality of children under 5 years old, which has halved over the last 20 years, as well as some other aspects relevant.
Among these other aspects are innovation and technology, as both are part of what motivates the increase in quality of life. According to the philanthropist, “the amount of innovation that is for the general improvement of the human condition is still going to be enormous. We're going to cure obesity, we're going to cure cancer, we're going to eradicate polio."
This seems to be a wave of optimism that has been affecting billionaires, as a colleague of Gates, Charlie Munger, also said last year past that people today should be happier, because “everyone is five times better than in the past”, as he also points out it is matter.
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