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She's free to get away with a smear like this because it's impossible to quantify or predict the amazing things that can arise from instant access to informatio
by saturdaysaint 10y ago
She's free to get away with a smear like this because it's impossible to quantify or predict the amazing things that can arise from instant access to information or from every human saving hundreds of hours a year and getting better products and services shopping online. Even when things inarguably improve - like when society suddenly decides to embrace and defend the rights of new categories of minorities - it's impossible to establish a definitive cause.
I'm sure some variant of this story could have been written at any time during the rise of global capitalism, yet the world has, by just about any measure, become a radically better place during just about any 25 year time frime. Show me a chart on https://ourworldindata.org/ https://ourworldindata.org/ where anything has gotten worse - from America to places once considered irredeemably "third world", just about anything we can measure is improving. We don't need concern trolls on high horses to make the world a better place.
- pron 10y agoWhat does this have to do with the article? Her criticism is very specific and is about something very recent.