Important: measures of wealth inequality are NOT measures of poverty! Global wealth has become much more concentrated as poverty has *simultaneously* DECLINED dramatically. Models that don't make this distinction are likely to make harmful prescriptions https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts …https://twitter.com/_JamieWhyte/status/1042153627530547206 …
Wait, do you believe there was ever a time in the past where extreme poverty was more prevalent but the global poor were working *less hard* for "basic services (computers)"?
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I think so The industrialization gap b/w countries was a lot less 50 years ago My grandma worked as a travel agent in Colombia w/o an education and could afford most services. A lot of these jobs are now automated, so harder to find good opportunities to afford basic services
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While I specifically mention travel agent, I think this is true for most high paying office jobs. Countries like mine rely on internet services like Uber Airbnb, but don't have any companies like this locally that provide high paying engineering jobs
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