While I think celebrating progress is good, and having a clearer “sense” of the data is good, I think the changes in the post are both qualitatively and quantitatively tiny compared to eg, changes my family members in China experienced between 1980 and 2000 or between 2000 and 2020. So I do think having your priors be formed by typical experiences in Western countries would give you a (relative) general sense of global stagnation.
While I think celebrating progress is good, and having a clearer “sense” of the data is good, I think the changes in the post are both qualitatively and quantitatively tiny compared to eg, changes my family members in China experienced between 1980 and 2000 or between 2000 and 2020. So I do think having your priors be formed by typical experiences in Western countries would give you a (relative) general sense of global stagnation.