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Do People Learn From the Facts or From Experience?
I travel a lot at universities and high schools, and the ignorance of kids about what life was like before progress before industrialization. They have no concept they have no clue what life expectancy was then but they also have no cluewhat life expectancy is today. And it's, it's, you know, the idea that extreme poverty is dropped to 8% is not something that they, you know you ask students and they say 40 50 60% they think poverty keeps getting worse. The last 40 years are being bad. A lot of that is because an opposite history is being taught right and we're so kind of inspired history that suggests that oh the past was wonderful and everything is awful today.
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