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Re:Marcus Aurelius: The Man Who Solved the Universe [video] by tsunamifury on Friday January 19, 2024 @07:28PM (#39063318)
It’s been proven over and over that less people live in poverty and starvation than any other era of human history. To Claim otherwise is not supported by the data.

However we have excelled at amplifying our remaining narrative of misery, warranted or not.

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Re:Marcus Aurelius: The Man Who Solved the Universe [video] by digging on Monday January 22, 2024 @02:44PM (#39094356)
> It’s been proven over and over that less people live in poverty and starvation than any other era of human history. To Claim otherwise is not supported by the data.

Great, but that's not a claim either of us made.

> However we have excelled at amplifying our remaining narrative of misery

This claim is not supported by the data. Ancient people wrote some miserable literature.

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