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 …
You believe that Colombians had greater access to *computers* *50 years ago*? Like, what is the claim here?
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Sorry - I mean *basic services* defined as things every household should have 60 years ago - meant food & health 30 years ago - also phones and radio Now - also computers and internet I'm saying bc of industrialization gap, harder to afford *today's* basic services
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This is kind of the point, no? In a hypothetical future where most households have a teleportation portal, there won't be much point in nostalgia for a time when an even greater percentage had a horse and buggy. You want perfect equality, you just have to undo *agriculture.*
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