Estebonrober
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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/12/18215534/bill-gates-global-poverty-chart
Ok so apparently Bill Gates started a poop flinging fight in global economic discussions around Davos. He posted a link indicating global poverty is down 90 some odd percent since 1820. Which admittedly has all sorts of measurement stick issues. I found the debate around it enlightening and entertaining. So I linked the relevant diatribes front he article right here.
I have to say while I can sympathize with the pre industrial romanticism that is the fashion these days, I can’t quite get my head around how ignorant, filthy and disease ridden was any way to go through life looking back on it now.
With that said I generally think we can do a hell of a lot better and the rich if the globe should not consider the last 40 years a total success. All that’s happened is they have sucked up more and more and the middle and poor of the entire globe have either seen flat or mild increases in relative in monetary or other compensation. I’m not against billionaires per se but we need to do better then the past 40 years.
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpres...rer-a-response-to-that-claim-by-steve-pinker/
https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-history-methods
https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/6/response-to-max-roser
https://glineq.blogspot.com/2019/02/global-poverty-over-long-term.html?m=1
Ok so apparently Bill Gates started a poop flinging fight in global economic discussions around Davos. He posted a link indicating global poverty is down 90 some odd percent since 1820. Which admittedly has all sorts of measurement stick issues. I found the debate around it enlightening and entertaining. So I linked the relevant diatribes front he article right here.
I have to say while I can sympathize with the pre industrial romanticism that is the fashion these days, I can’t quite get my head around how ignorant, filthy and disease ridden was any way to go through life looking back on it now.
With that said I generally think we can do a hell of a lot better and the rich if the globe should not consider the last 40 years a total success. All that’s happened is they have sucked up more and more and the middle and poor of the entire globe have either seen flat or mild increases in relative in monetary or other compensation. I’m not against billionaires per se but we need to do better then the past 40 years.
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpres...rer-a-response-to-that-claim-by-steve-pinker/
https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-history-methods
https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/6/response-to-max-roser
https://glineq.blogspot.com/2019/02/global-poverty-over-long-term.html?m=1