>It really isn't all that awesome 70% of the world's population lives on less than $10/day. And that is a significant improvement over most of history. If it

>It really isn't all that awesome 70% of the world's population lives on less than $10/day. And that is a significant improvement over most of history. If it's really half of the world that has $2300 that sounds very promising to me. I guess "awesome vs not awesome" really amounts to "compared to what?" Compared to the fantasy in my head of how life could be, it's terrible. Compared to real world history, it sounds pretty good.