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> Actually inequality (of percentage of the world's resources amassed) between poor and rich countries has increased as well. The get richer compared to their o
by mantas 7y ago
> Actually inequality (of percentage of the world's resources amassed) between poor and rich countries has increased as well. The get richer compared to their own past, but less than the world is getting richer overall.
That's an interesting claim to make. China, India, Eastern europe... Africa is having a boom too. Ask any westerner who used to go on dirt cheap super long vacations. The today's gap is miniscule compared to the glorious days.
- coldtea 7y ago>That's an interesting claim to make. Apparently true too. E.g: https://ibb.co/gm33zJb https://ibb.co/gm33zJb
- mantas 7y agoIt seems to be comparing personal incomes rather than country-to-country difference. Isn't it? And it goes up to 1990 only. China and India boomed after that. Eastern europe was in the process of shrugging off their chains. Africa boom started more than a decade later. I'm talking about GDP PPP grouped by country. Coming from eastern european perspective, the difference is much smaller than it was in 90s or 70s. Both in how close we're to western europe and us and how China or India or Africa got closer to us.