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Re:What's the Least Impactful Way to Spend $300,000,000? by eru on Friday April 14, 2023 @04:01AM (#35566762)
Why do you worry about borders?

Just because eg inequality in the US might have increased, and inequality in China might have increased, doesn't mean that the inequality in their combined population has increased.

I'm talking about the combined population of all humanity.

See eg https://archive.is/7xWtr

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Re:What's the Least Impactful Way to Spend $300,000,000? by jwestbury on Friday April 14, 2023 @04:49AM (#35567094)
> Why do you worry about borders?

Because our local society is the society against which we, as humans, tend to measure ourselves, and inequality within our in-group is the strongest predictor of crime, perhaps?

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Re:What's the Least Impactful Way to Spend $300,000,000? by shjake on Monday April 17, 2023 @04:57AM (#35598288)
> Why do you worry about borders?

Why wouldn’t you? The fact that Chinese people are much better off than they were a few decades ago has almost no bearing on the well-being of me, my family, relatives, friends or almost anyone I know.

Increasing inequality in the country I live (or countries I have the right to live in or would ever consider moving to) does.

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