Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
by roenxi on Thursday April 30, 2026 @09:47AM
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In the sense that the global median income crept from about $0 to $10,000 sure over a few centuries. That's a big achievement but it isn't exactly the best case scenario. We want a world where everyone can live at least a 6- or 7- figure salary.
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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
by ben_w on Thursday April 30, 2026 @10:12AM
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> the global median income crept from about $0 to $10,000 sure over a few centuries
The floor is 2-300 USD equivalent, because that's what subsistence farming is, and it took two centuries to go from $1500 to $18811: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-average-gdp-per-ca...
> We want a world where everyone can live at least a 6- or 7- figure salary.
that's a massive shift of goalposts from "not having enough to live comfortably is that we have an enormous number of humans and limited resources".
Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday April 30, 2026 @09:57AM
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> That's a big achievement but it isn't exactly the best case scenario. We want a world where everyone can live at least a 6- or 7- figure salary
I actually agree with this vision. But I wouldn't say every human not being a millionaire is "the #1 problem" today.