You live in the most privileged period in human history.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/poverty-explorer?tab=li...

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.

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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.

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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 an hour 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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password54321 an hour ago | parent [-]

This seems to apply much more to certain nations like the US while it drops worldwide in recent decades.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/inequality?tab=line&cou...

	▲	jedimastert an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I would call that holding steady worldwide in the last decade, which honestly is still unacceptable with how much more wealthy the world has gotten

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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.