The Golden Age of Humanity

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MTZehvor said:

Ruler said:

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While this is technically true, it should also come with a huge asterisk. Inequality has drastically increased over the past two centuries simply because countries began to develop economically. In the early 1800s, the vast majority of the world lived in conditions similar to what the poorest countries in Africa experience. While nearly all countries have improved economically since then, some have obviously improved by more than others, technically leading to greater inequality.

Think of it like this. Imagine two scenarios, one where five people each have a dollar, and another where five people have $20, $15, $10, $5, and $1 respectively. The second scenario has a higher degree of inequality than the first, despite the vast majority of people being better off than those in the first.

That was one of my points. The other is, that if you count in political/financial elite, you'll notice that unequality have decreased. Also, the number of slaves, as far as I know, have decreased in the last 200 years, so I'd guess this is also counted towards increasing equality. The people who usually talk about "increased unequality", mean that instead of everyone doing better, everyone should be doing like shit, because otherwise you can't be equal and someone will always have more of "something" than someone else.