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| ▲ | dwroberts 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| You’re posting this like it’s a counterpoint, but it further highlights how disgusting the situation is. We have people becoming trillionaires while 10% of the world’s population is considered to be in extreme poverty. It’s ‘less bad’ than in the past but it’s still absolutely horrifying. |
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| ▲ | password54321 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | How much of that trillion is liquid? If people stopped buying a Tesla, would that somehow help the poor? Making electric vehicles more mainstream seems like a net-positive to the world. | | |
| ▲ | wqaatwt an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Possibly. If they invested their money into something more societally productive and/or the government took their money to do that or they weren’t allowed to accumulate enough surplus wealth in the first place. Of course the last two options have been a bit problematic historically. | | | |
| ▲ | microgpt an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Objection: irrelevant deflection. | | |
| ▲ | password54321 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Bot account with a dramatic amount of comments in a short period of time. How do we let this nonsense through? |
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| ▲ | microgpt an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How privileged is a period? |
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| ▲ | jedimastert 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| And yet we are also living in some of the strongest wealth inequality in the last 100 years at least. https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality |
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| ▲ | wqaatwt an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| So what? That seems entirely tangential. Unless your point that economic inequality inherently accelerates technological progress (which seems valid at least to some extent)? |
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| ▲ | password54321 an hour ago | parent [-] | | You don't think capitalism played a role in eliminating poverty? | | |
| ▲ | wqaatwt an hour ago | parent [-] | | No, I implied it did. I actually think that free market competition has been the main driving force behind human progress for quite a while now. The issue is that the “winning condition” of capitalism results in the complete subversion of that process. So it’s always a balance. |
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