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Re:Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails by olalonde on Monday November 03, 2014 @08:50AM (#8550720)
Here's a pretty convincing TED talk which makes the point that global poverty has indeed significantly gone down in recent history, especially among developing countries: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y...

It was posted here about 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373041

I don't think we should look at poverty as a solved problem, but I think it would be overly cynical to not acknowledge how much the "system" has done for the poor.

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Re:Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails by psychometry on Monday November 03, 2014 @09:18AM (#8550837)
American slaves in 1850 were much better off than American slaves in 1650. Should we acknowledge what great things slavery did for black people in the U.S.? Do you see why your argument is worthless?
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