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209 | Brad DeLong on Why the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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How Much Is It Worth?

The average income per capita in the world today is something like $13,000 a year. While they was maybe $1,200 a year back in 1870 and maybe $900 a yearback in 1500. Average living standards 15 times what they were in the battle agrarian age where your boys grew up to be 5 foot 3 and you were hungry a lot of the time. But it ain't utopia. It's not.

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