What do our (supposed) intellectual elite know about human progress? Repost: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=165938533888688&id=100014176268390 … Intro excerpted belowpic.twitter.com/DRaMaYqnNy
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The fortune of their guild depends on being needed, which in turn depends on a sense of crisis and enlightened rescue. Only, there's no crisis, and the "philosopher kings" are self-serving impostors who regularly make things worse.
Just because some of those numbers are better than people expect doesn't mean there aren't real crises. Eg the numbers on extreme poverty have gotten a lot better, and that should be celebrated, but at the same time that level (about $2/day) is a very low bar.