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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 27

    Another example of how "progressives" hate progress, preferring "The worse, the better." (Attributed to Lenin, though he probably never said it.) https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/leftists-are-trying-muddy-waters-falling-global-poverty … via @CatoInstitute

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      2. Jason Hickel‏Verified account @jasonhickel Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        If any of you would care to read the actual argument against Pinker's simplistic narrative of global poverty, you can do so here. Nothing like muddying the waters with... facts.https://www.academia.edu/21593862/The_True_Extent_of_Global_Poverty_and_Hunger_Questioning_the_Good_News_Narrative_of_the_Millennium_Development_Goals …

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      3. Jason Hickel‏Verified account @jasonhickel Aug 27
        Replying to @jasonhickel @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        You might find this piece useful. Hot of the press, co-authored by Charles Kenny of the Center for Global Development, formerly of the World Bank... might help cut through some of the confusion in the debate out there.https://www.cgdev.org/blog/12-things-we-can-agree-about-global-poverty …

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      1. 𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐌𝐜𝐍𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲  🐍‏ @McnallyKell Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        Most progs don't "hate" progress, but there's an irrational fear that acknowledging it will curtail efforts. We activists must remind them that acknowledging wins is vital to show our efforts matter. The FAR left genuinely want it all to burn down for their fantasy phoenix.

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      2. Steve Kusmer‏ @kusmer Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        As someone who read (and loved) Enlightenment Now, I find it hard to believe that the same author who wrote it is also someone who would castigate all progressives because he encountered a few shady detractors worthy of mocking.

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      3. TheodorD‏ @gsxr_hunter Aug 27
        Replying to @kusmer @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        That's why he used the word progressives with quotation marks, to address the few detractors, not all of them.

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      4. Steve Kusmer‏ @kusmer Aug 27
        Replying to @gsxr_hunter @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        I find it hard to imagine a world where criticism of half of the electorate (including a damning faux-Lenin quote) could be reasonably excused because of a couple of quotation marks. His writing and academic work are far more precise than that.

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      5. Milan Cirkovic‏ @MilanCirkovic3 Aug 28
        Replying to @kusmer @gsxr_hunter and

        And this is obviously an academic platform, where one needs to be precise and use five significant figures with standard deviations, higher moments of a distribution, etc.?

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      1. Marcus Stewart‏ @Marcusdstewart Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        Don't trust the Cato Institute. They're a libertarian think-tank with vested interest in deregulated markets, especially regarding energy and climate as they're directly funded by fossil fuel interests. They've no interest in balanced information.

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      1. Pat‏ @castlecraver Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker @_Four_Horsemen @CatoInstitute

        As much of a failure that "trickle down economics" has proven to be, it's unsurprising that defending it now requires long winded, obfuscating misrepresentations like this.

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      2. Dean L. Willbur, Jr.‏ @dlwjrpa Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        May have something to do with the right lauding the fact that there are fewer people living on less than $1.90 per day. When you set the bar that low progress is easy. Proud that we have set a standard that our domestic animals in the US could not live on....think I will pass.

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      3. Malcolm McMahon‏ @FulfordMalcolm Aug 27
        Replying to @dlwjrpa @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        If you read the article you’ll see that whatever threshold you choose you get similar results. And yes, it’s not the left who get the credit

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      4. Trevchenko‏ @trevchenko82 Aug 27
        Replying to @FulfordMalcolm @dlwjrpa and

        "They" rarely read the articles and "they" certainly do t understand mathematics when "they" always refer to the 1.90 benchmark Embarrassing really

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      1. Morgan Hope Phillips‏ @MorganHPhillips Aug 28
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        China, that bastion of neo-liberal free market capitalism, is responsible for most of the gains in poverty reduction; the gains across the rest of the global south (esp. those who’ve had structural adjustment programmes forced on them), not so good. 🙄

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      1. Daniel Gagnon‏ @LecturerapideDg Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        Cato !!! ??? Are you spreading propaganda ? I've got your book and I'm not able to finish it... PLEASE: reassure me.

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      1. Robert Kent-Bryant‏ @RDKentBryant Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker @CatoInstitute

        I know it's Twitter, but for such a broad statement, a definition of "progressive" is required -- or at least the use of the word "some".

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      2. Bob Quigley‏ @quigley_bob Aug 27
        Replying to @sapinker

        Doublespeak much?

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      3. Valence Smith‏ @smith_valence Aug 27
        Replying to @quigley_bob @sapinker

        Try explaining the double speak. That’s too much like work though, isn’t it?

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