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Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty by woolvalley on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:47AM (#19142490)
This shows it's not an apocalypse story, but a story debating the details, with a positive upside that humanity has more capacity than in the past to relieve this poverty too.
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Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty by andrewwharton on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:02AM (#19142545)
Absolutely. I think his main issue is with Pinker and Gates way overselling any successes and attributing them to neoliberal globalization.

I'd posit that anyone characterizing this as an apocalypse story hasn't actually read the article.

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Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty by vanderZwan on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:34AM (#19142665)
Do any of these debates (by Pinker, Gates, etc) about neoliberal globalization address the elephant in the room that is the history of CIA interventions, and IMF and the World Bank and structural adjustments?
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