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Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty by grecy on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @07:40AM (#19142986)
> I thought it's really poorly argued

That's interesting, because the book does not contain any arguments.

It contains facts. Hard numbers gathered over generations.

It's not a discussion or an argument, it's simply facts about the state of the world.

Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty by danharaj on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:08AM (#19144034)
The facts that you choose to include in a book and which to not include is implicitly an argument. I doubt the book goes over how the sky is blue, grass is green, and water is wet. What facts it considers relevant to mention is the entire argument itself.