Personally, I like to think of real facts, not thought experiments. In terms of global poverty, disease, hunger, active wars, inequality, the year 2012 is the b

Personally, I like to think of real facts, not thought experiments. In terms of global poverty, disease, hunger, active wars, inequality, the year 2012 is the best year recorded in human history [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] What happens with the US (and the UK) is a global redistribution of wealth. The US economy is basically stagnating, but developing countries are booming. [1] http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPOVCALNET/Resources/Global_Poverty_Update_2012_02-29-12.pdf http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPOVCALNET/Resources/Gl... [2] http://cid.bcrp.gob.pe/biblio/Papers/NBER/2009/Octubre/w15433.pdf http://cid.bcrp.gob.pe/biblio/Papers/NBER/2009/Octubre/w1543... [3] http://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/pdf/statistical-review/statistical_review_of_world_energy_2013.pdf http://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/pdf/statistical-review/stat... [4] http://www.unaids.org/en/media/unaids/contentassets/documents/epidemiology/2012/gr2012/20121120_UNAIDS_Global_Report_2012_en.pdf http://www.unaids.org/en/media/unaids/contentassets/document... [5] http://www.who.int/malaria/world_malaria_report_2011/WMR2011_chapter7.pdf http://www.who.int/malaria/world_malaria_report_2011/WMR2011... [6] http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurveilance/documents/document/acspc-027766.pdf http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurvei...