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> Let's see a pilot program or something because I don't see all that much global-scale sharing of the technologies that can most improve life. Yes, we do this
by philwelch 4y ago
> Let's see a pilot program or something because I don't see all that much global-scale sharing of the technologies that can most improve life.
Yes, we do this. We did this with smallpox vaccination, we’re doing it with polio vaccines, HIV drugs, water purification systems, mobile phone network infrastructure, nets that are treated to protect from malaria-bearing mosquitoes. Sometimes people in rich countries go out of their way to invent technology that gives us no benefit but provides tremendous benefit to people in poorer countries, such as Norman Borlaug’s work. The global poor have become less poor to a much greater degree than the global rich have gotten richer.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoAnd based on that outcome you feel optimistic here?
- philwelch 4y agoI dare say we got very good outcomes with smallpox, polio, and HIV. Aside from that? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/above-or-below-extreme-poverty-line-world-bank?time=1981..latest&country=~OWID_WRL https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/above-or-below-extreme-po...