Episode 71: Ignore the Naysayers, Life Is Amazing
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The Rise of Population and Poverty
The percentage of people globally who are living in abject poverty has fallen from north of 95% in Malthus' day to below 10% today. The delta between the rich and the poor has been shrinking over the centuries, not increasing. We're going to have this data available to you in the show notes so you can look at it just like we did. You will likely be every bit as surprised by it as we were given what you tend to expect when you start walking down this road.
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