Part of the idea was that we have "event bias". Lots of meaningful things happen in the world without any significant event. Look at gap minder or green revolut

Part of the idea was that we have "event bias". Lots of meaningful things happen in the world without any significant event. Look at gap minder or green revolution. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." -Eleanor Roosevelt Personally I don't like the idea of ranking people. There is nothing wrong discussing people or events. But I'm natural idea person and most websites have very poor signal to noise ratio in that respect.