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No - I am explicitly considering the world. There are fewer people (as a percentage) starving and in bondage than in any prior era. I don't think I have an ov
by JackFr 9y ago
No - I am explicitly considering the world. There are fewer people (as a percentage) starving and in bondage than in any prior era.
I don't think I have an overly rosy picture of the present. Rather I think your picture of the past is too romantic.
- wu-ikkyu 9y ago>There are fewer people (as a percentage) starving There are more people (in real numbers) starving than ever before. Looking at this in terms of percentages is misleading
- pixl97 9y ago>Looking at this in terms of percentages is misleading Um, per capita is the important metric. If there are 2 million people on your planet and 1 million of them are starving, then in a few generations there 100 million people and 2 million of them are starving you have drastically reduced the rate of starvation. Malthusian predictions of the past have said that the rate of starvation/bad things happening would increase as the population increased. It has not.
- wu-ikkyu 9y ago>Um, per capita is the important metric. The true number of starving people is not an important metric?