Which part of the world is succeeding? What does that actually mean? 'Success of the world' is such an empty statement. What did it succeed at? Destroying our habitat?
> does not mean we shouldn't work to improve it
Most of the more brilliant minds in the current industrialized world are working on making more money for someone (themselves or others). Who's working on actually improving it? And improve it how? By making the world a better place 'through minimal message oriented transport layers'?
> It means we shouldn't be doomers and think the world is falling apart
Nobody is saying one should be a doomer or whatever. Doomer implies losing all hope. What I'm advocating is losing hope for the current system, not for the world.
Hans Rosling is right.
And the success of the world does not mean we shouldn't work to improve it. It means we shouldn't be doomers and think the world is falling apart.
Max Roser said it well with "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better."
https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better