Why did our ancestors live in poverty for so long? My new post – and visualizations – on how pandemics allow us to understand why our ancestors were trapped in poverty.https://ourworldindata.org/breaking-the-malthusian-trap …
If your definition of poverty is relative and economic growth exponential, then if you factor out things like political upheavals, epidemics, and climate disasters, it will always seem that your ancestors lived in poverty.
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Also the industrial revolution is impossible to overstate in significance
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I think the main aspect that I’m trying to get at is that income increases didn’t last over long periods of time. That’s what was different in that period. Or differently, if the future will be much richer than our days then our time doesn’t differ from theirs in that same way.
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The question the post is focusing on is basically: Why was this the case?pic.twitter.com/PKzyMOnDk5
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We should never deviate from only considering poverty absolute. In my opinion we should abolish any discussion (and quash any thought) of inequality too, but sadly I'm on the fringe there. All that matters is alleviating misery, then allowing maximum freedom (+ environment!).
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The article talks about disturbances such as the epidemic and its impact in an economy based on the Zero-sum.Even with included this,our ancestors were living poverty,and their old economy based on Zero-sum was in turn contributing to the consecration of such disturbances as wars
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