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What do you mean _other traffic_? These are different people. Probability that you suffer from hunger in your life reduced from 0.8 to 0.08, an order of magnitu
by korantu 7y ago
What do you mean _other traffic_? These are different people. Probability that you suffer from hunger in your life reduced from 0.8 to 0.08, an order of magnitude.
If one had choice, one would certainly choose to be born now.
Yes, there is still lots of suffering, but as Rosling says, things can be bad and getting better at the same time
- cagenut 7y agoBut the point is "things" did not and are not getting better. It's literally right there in the title of the shared article you don't even need to click or read it.
- korantu 7y agoJust to conclude, before industrial revolution civilisation could only provide hunger-less life to 0.1B people. Now, civilisation provided hunger-free life to 7B people. If this is not 'getting better', I don't know what is, even if same _number_ of people go hungry. At least now the food to feed them actually exists, which was not the case before
- cagenut 7y agoI'm sorry I don't want to turn this into a back and forth internet debate but I feel like you're very deliberately missing the point. Averages are an abstraction. People are real. "getting better" for those people means ... actually getting better. Its that simple. You're overthinking this and trying to apply mathematical models and abstractions, which don't get me wrong, are very valuable tools. But don't lose your anchor in material reality.