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Nesrine Malik – Why the world can get worse by constantly saying it’s getting better

The Correspondent by The Correspondent

Dec 1, 202000:16:21News & Politics

Progress is a measure of things being different, not necessarily better. And talking about it as an achievement can actually make it more difficult to spur real forward movement. If we want to understand our society’s pr...

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