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Progress is good. As Steven Pinker has argued, most things are getting better over time. We are richer, healthier, safer, and better-educated than our ancestors. Although redistribution and social changes can make things better or worse around the edges, most of our current fortunate position comes from simple economic growth.
Scott Alexander • Notes From The Progress Studies Conference
Yunus said, “One day in the future, when there is finally no more poverty on the earth, they will build museums to show future generations what poverty was like, and these future generations will be horrified that people could allow such things to happen.”
John Kehoe • Quantum Warrior | The Future of the Mind
At the start of the sixth age of globalization, around 1820, the world was still overwhelmingly poor and rural. Perhaps 85 percent of the world’s population sustained itself through farming, almost all of it at a level at or near subsistence. Around 93 percent of the world lived in rural areas. Most people never ventured far from their birthplace,
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Big Idea Six: The Importance of Wealth and Economic Growth