These 31 charts will destroy your faith in humanity

[xchrom]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/24/these-31-charts-will-destroy-your-faith-in-humanity/?tid=ts_carousel

Earlier this week, Rob Wile of Business Insider posted his graph-heavy opus: “31 Charts That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity.”

Naturally, we here at Wonkblog were all eager to see the results. But we’d quibble a bit with Wile’s interpretations of the data. His charts all struck us as horrible news. So we’re re-analyzing them here with the proper, gloom-heavy spin:

1) Inter-state wars are on the rise since 2002. Zoom in on that pink line:


2) Dictatorships still exist:


3) We haven’t eradicated human slavery:


4) People around the world are becoming just as lazy as the French:



***the rest of us are just catching on to what the french already knew...there's more to life than work.
pass that really good fromage, s'il vous plaît.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. They have a sense of humor

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. I must pass this on. Priceless. at least in 2013.

In 1913, not so much.

[siligut]

2. The top graph would be more readable as a bar graph

And the slave and hours worked graphs could be re-calibrated for time and overlayed, just to offer more precise data. No wonder the RW has become so extreme, the trends are against them.