Looking at the charts...emerging economies are more optimistic. Have the aims of democracy been achieved and the rest of the world is having a delayed benefit?lol France. Is institutionalized pessimism all that bad...from a standard of life point of view?Societies that remember and societies that forget. I’ve noticed a tell for this is what’s on their money. Here, the Queen ages. In Guatemala, they have old conquistadores. In China it’s Mao. The blankness of crypto, leaves room to imagine the...