In good news we don't celebrate nearly enough: about 100 years ago, in the richest countries in the world, about half of children died before the age of 5. That was just thought of as a property of children. Actual cause: absence-of-wealth, which was ubiquitous and now *is not.*https://twitter.com/DinaPomeranz/status/1130391278687064065 …
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This underlies a lot of the book Factfullness, which is very much worth reading.
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Beat me to it. If you haven’t read it, you should. (I would guess you haven’t, because the “very novel thing” statement is the kind of thing I wouldn’t now say after having read it.)https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2387117576 …
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Some medical care available now wouldn’t have been available to even the richest back then, eg vaccines.
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