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Just to conclude, before industrial revolution civilisation could only provide hunger-less life to 0.1B people. Now, civilisation provided hunger-free life to
by korantu 7y ago
Just 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.