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In a counterfactual that begins with a trillion dollars to spend on something other than war - even in reality, for that matter - do you really not imagine we c
by throwanem 3y ago
In a counterfactual that begins with a trillion dollars to spend on something other than war - even in reality, for that matter - do you really not imagine we could choose to do better as a species than a dollar a day?
- ben_w 3y ago1) A trillion dollars, spread over the 1.8 billion people in extreme poverty in 1990 and the 32 years since then, would have been 0.046 USD/person/day. 2) There's also this graph, if you want to see how the other income brackets are changing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty#/media/File:The_number_of_people_below_different_poverty_lines.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty#/media/File:Th...