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Re:How do we know the history of extreme poverty? (2019) by dang on Monday April 05, 2021 @11:50AM (#26700551)
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar. This sort of boilerplate just leads to predictable, boring, and nasty discussion. It's also sensational and gets lots of upvotes, which fans the flames. It's a failure mode for large internet forums, which simply can't do anything interesting with this material.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:How do we know the history of extreme poverty? (2019) by ctdonath on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:08PM (#26706337)
The quote is an important conclusion of the article. Discussing facts which challenge popular notions should not be cancelled.
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Re:How do we know the history of extreme poverty? (2019) by dang on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:24AM (#26712967)
It's a cliché of this ideological topic, and therefore flamebait, guaranteed to provoke a shallow, repetitive argument. That's what we're asking people not to get into here. Shallow, repetitive arguments are boring.

If you'd like to "challenge popular notions" in some more interesting way, that of course is fine.

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