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The percent of the world's population living in absolute poverty has fallen from 94% in 1820 to less than 10% today.[1] That's the greatest miracle in human his
by dcolkitt 6y ago
The percent of the world's population living in absolute poverty has fallen from 94% in 1820 to less than 10% today.[1] That's the greatest miracle in human history.
[1] https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1086662632587907072 https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1086662632587907072
- mempko 6y agoYeah, but we discovered oil. Humanity suddenly had unbounded energy to do what it needed to drive machines. Both capitalist and non capitalist systems brought over a billion people out of poverty. USA and Europe on one hand and USSR and China on the other. Behind it all is abundance of energy. It would be a mistake to attribute it to a system like capitalism which never really existed in anything close to a "pure" form anywhere ever.