As a consequence, global well-being (by any reasonable measure) is also increasing at an accelerating pace.
Note that this DOES NOT contradict the fact that various "inequality gaps" are also increasing at an accelerating pace. This is natural.
Meanwhile, in reality:
- corruption / inability to problem-solve in most governments in any reasonable amount of time is more and more evident as transparency / software insecurity increases, and there's no obvious way to fix this
- business advantages through technology, information asymmetry, lack of competition, and very cheap labor accelerates, businesses which have a singular goal in mind with little care for negative externalities
- species diversity plummets
- climate change remains negatively positive (zika incoming everyone, I'm sure we'll figure it out in time, just don't have any babies in the meantime)
- wage slavery becomes more and more real for more and more people, in the US particularly through people taking on debt for what used to be a non-risky endeavor (higher education) but which actually turned out to be foolish once they were ready to work
Remember, the only thing that matters is that you get yours; that's the name of the game and it's only so long until the consequences of this utterly delusional approach of infinite growth in a closed system will find its way to the homes of the rich and powerful, too. Who in their right mind, excluding miraculously well-executed altruistic AI proliferation appearing, is looking to the future and saying, "we're doing it everyone! things are getting better and better!".
Do you have any idea what 3 billion+ people living in poverty looks like? Because that is now, and it's fucking shameful how little we care about our communities, our planet, in this race to greater and greater "wealth".