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Putting it all in perspective: If you lived through the 1940s at all you won the freaking lottery.
by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Putting it all in perspective: If you lived through the 1940s at all you won the freaking lottery.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoWhen more than half the population wins it it's a bad lottery. Times may have sucked but you don't need to exaggerate by an order of magnitude.
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- justadeveloper2 9y ago50 million dead attributed to that war.
- DamnYuppie 9y agoYes that is a lot but it is no where near 1/2 of the worlds population.
- mikeash 9y agoThe world population in 1940 was about 2.3 billion, so WWII killed around 2% of everyone alive. Compare with the An Lushan Rebellion, which killed somewhere between 13-36 million people at a time when the world population was only about 200-300 million, killing 4-18% of everyone alive.
- tnzn 9y agoThe 36 million is most likely untrue though, we're probably closer to the 13 million one (which would still be twice as much as WWII when it comes to % of global population)
- pavel_lishin 9y agoRather depends on where you were living at the time, doesn't it?