What are your 5 most important facts?

What are the 5 most important facts that shape your worldview?

For me it would be:

  • Humanity is old: Homo Sapiens have been around for 300,000 years, and only writing for the past ~5,000.

  • We live way longer than people used to: As best we know, across all societies and times, half of children used to die. Now it’s 4%.

  • Almost everyone in the world is materially better off than almost everyone in history: Global average GDP per capita was about $1,000-1,500 until 1820. Now it is about $20,000.

  • Rich countries are vastly richer than poor countries: The income needed to be part of the global 1% is $65k/yr (after tax).

  • The universe is big. Like, really big. There are 10^23 stars, and the universe is 14 billion years old.

These facts are pretty undisputable.

I’m left with the view that:

  • My worries and troubles are pretty insignificant.

  • Things have gotten a lot better recently.

  • And there is a lot of collective work to be done to ensure they keep getting better.

What about you? What are the facts that shape your worldview?