Life is much better today than ever before.  I guess the challenge is that we have improved all of the lower parts of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, but lost a lot of the institutions and connections that helped people explore the higher elements of meaning, connection, significance and self-transcendence.

Check out the improved quality of life over the last 200 years…

• Extreme Poverty: from 94% to 10%
• Basic Education: from 17% to 86%
• Literacy: from 12% to 85%
• Vaccination: from 0% to 86%
• Child Mortality: from 43% to 4%

Thanks to my brother for sharing the infographic 😉