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Re:Elite do-gooders 'fixing' the world are part of the probl... by harryh on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @03:15PM (#24124632)
Here it is in graph form:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-real-gdp-per-capi...

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Re:Elite do-gooders 'fixing' the world are part of the probl... by untilHellbanned on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @03:22PM (#24124743)
Comparing eras doesn't seem very useful. 90 years ago my grandma got one orange as a present once a year. Today people buy bags of oranges every day.

Day-by-day the world is zero sum.

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Re:Elite do-gooders 'fixing' the world are part of the probl... by harryh on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @03:36PM (#24124945)
In order to get from "one orange as a present once a year" to "bags of oranges every day" each day has to (on average) see a small amount of growth.
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