Is This an Invisible Crisis?

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If you have a growth rate that is one percentage point lower, over the course of a bit more than a century, you could have been three times richer with the higher growth rate. I don't think economic growth is always a positive, but the world, in america, has serious problems. There is a moral imperative to this kind of progress, and we shouldn't lose sight of that fact. And so no, since i was born, for example, global life expectancy has increased by about six years. An infant mortality has fallen by more than 50%. That should be on the front page.

Over the past year Mark Zuckerberg has held a series of interviews themed around technology and society. This conversation with Tyler and Patrick is the last in that series, and covers why they think the study of progress is so important, including how it could affect biomedical research, the founding of new universities and foundations, building things fast, housing and healthcare affordability, the next four years of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and more.

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