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Legitimately what is a better time in history for the total amount of human suffering to be less? Countries that are just awful to be in have always existed. I
by Loughla 2y ago
Legitimately what is a better time in history for the total amount of human suffering to be less?
Countries that are just awful to be in have always existed. I'm willing to bet that a smaller percent of humans are in misery today than ever in history.
Thoughts?
- pests 2y agoI remember Bill Gates recommending a book on his book list a few years (half a decade?) ago about how, by every measurable stat, life is better now than it has ever been in the past.
- losvedir 2y agoFactfulness by Hans Rosling you're probably thinking of.
- pests 2y agoI think that's it! Thanks. I remember the subtitle.
- DiscourseFan 2y agoBill Gates has profited immensely from the current world order, why wouldn't he say its great?
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoDo you have any savings, investments, or work for a company that sells something globally? You've benefited too.
- CamperBob2 2y agoHe showed his numbers. Let's see yours.
- DiscourseFan 2y agoIs this a reference to American Psycho?
- meiraleal 2y ago> Legitimately what is a better time in history for the total amount of human suffering to be less? The British could have said the same to Americans a couple hundred years ago and that was also true. It wasn't enough to stop the American revolution tho.
- Loughla 2y agoWhile factually correct, That statement has absolutely nothing to do with what I said, or this argument at all. You've now changed the topic from what was originally discussed to something different. Was that your intention? Or am I missing something about the argument?
- meiraleal 2y ago> Or am I missing something about the argument? If someone (like you) had convinced the US that the Pax Inglesa was good enough, no Pax Americana would exist. What is to say is that let's say, the Pax Chinesa, could be better and more prosperous than the Pax Americana so we should not be afraid of ditching the US in favor of alternatives.
- faggotbreath 2y ago[dead]
- golergka 2y ago> What is to say is that let's say, the Pax Chinesa, could be better and more prosperous than the Pax Americana so we should not be afraid of ditching the US in favor of alternatives. Right from the american independence, it was obvious to the whole world that american model is more free and democratic than british. Revolutionaries all around the world, in France, in Haiti, in South America (both Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin) held the new USA as a model to follow. Can anyone say that about China? Well, of course, somebody can — there are influencers who try to sell China and Russia as a better alternative to the western world. But expect to be taken as seriously as these influences then.