| ▲ | roenxi 6 hours ago | |
In the sense that the global median income crept from about $0 to $10,000 sure over a few centuries. That's a big achievement but it isn't exactly the best case scenario. We want a world where everyone can live at least a 6- or 7- figure salary. | ||
| ▲ | ben_w 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> the global median income crept from about $0 to $10,000 sure over a few centuries The floor is 2-300 USD equivalent, because that's what subsistence farming is, and it took two centuries to go from $1500 to $18811: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-average-gdp-per-ca... > We want a world where everyone can live at least a 6- or 7- figure salary. that's a massive shift of goalposts from "not having enough to live comfortably is that we have an enormous number of humans and limited resources". | ||
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> That's a big achievement but it isn't exactly the best case scenario. We want a world where everyone can live at least a 6- or 7- figure salary I actually agree with this vision. But I wouldn't say every human not being a millionaire is "the #1 problem" today. | ||