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Re:African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to ... by shkkmo on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @05:48PM (#35808232)
> It has doubled in Palestine and Haiti over the last couple of decades, and is way up for many sub-Saharan African countries.

https://tradingeconomics.com/haiti/gdp-per-capita

The actual facts don't match your rosey summary.

Haiti has faced 4 straight years of a shrinking economy and the GDP per capita is at one of it's lowest points in the last 60 years.

Yes, many people have been lifted out of poverty but it has happened alongside increasing inequality and there have been some very notable failures and Haiti is one of them.

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Re:African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to ... by marcusverus on Thursday May 04, 2023 @09:42AM (#35815182)
Wrong. World bank data shows Haiti's GDP per capita has more than doubled since 2000. [0]

You anti-capitalists have already caused a century of misery and wont--can't you just admit defeat? Haiti is the perfect example of the extraordinary benefits of our system. 40% can't read. 60% lack access to electricity. Yet even they can't escape the bounty of global capitalist system!

It's over. Capitalism won, for the benefit of all of humanity.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/country/haiti

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Re:African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to ... by shkkmo on Friday May 05, 2023 @08:56AM (#35828615)
It's funny how if you ignore inflation, it looks like things are growing. Try looking at the inflation adjusted 2015 graph.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD?location...

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