shocking that the narratives of neoliberal panglossians like @sapinker and @billgates may not be so trustworthy. ht @katiecannon2https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1092479668844929025 …
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Agree that those are much more legitimate debates! But Hickel makes many spurious factual claims in presenting that case. I would update your/his direction if
@BrankoMilan endorsed the claims highlighted in these pictures.pic.twitter.com/gfZY7LXhk7
I also found it irritating that Hickel seems to mostly dismiss the drop in extreme poverty (and the other drops) as unimportant. For someone who claims to be speaking for the poor, he doesn't seem to much care. (Still, there were some useful items in that piece.)
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Fair enough! But that gets to the core dispute: what should count as success, and given what counts as success, what should be done. I favor a global UBI at ~$100/month paid unilaterally by developed countries. if remedying $1.90 poverty is an important goal, might that not make
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more sense than a mere conservatism of status quo (neo)liberalism? perhaps even
@BillGates and@sapinker would agree, who knows? but if there is more to their view than doing what we do (plus their benighted philanthropy) is basically the right plan, i wish they’d tell us that.
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