People are optimistic about their own lives and pessimistic about the world, because they judge their life on everything and the world on the last few headlines.

Drawn from what Hannah Ritchie said

What this subject means

optimism Expecting things to go well: whether it is what gets things built, or a bias that forecasts keep paying for.

On the topicWhy be optimistic?under our view: The world is doing better than people feel, and pessimistic forecasts keep losing

What Hannah Ritchie actually said

Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?

In tension with

Ask who benefits from you reading a piece of news, and you conclude that perhaps 95 percent of it was published to get you to buy, support, fight or donate.

Ritchie explains collective pessimism as an availability effect: people judge their own life on everything that has happened to them and the world on a handful of recent, mostly bad, events. Durov says roughly 95 percent of news exists to make you buy, support, fight or donate. One locates the distortion in the reader and the other in the publisher, and the remedy differs accordingly.

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