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rob05c  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The World's 85 Richest People Are as Wealthy as the Poorest 3 Billion

    If those poorest 3 billion, had adequate
    we are nowhere near such a scenario

And we never will be, because "adequate" is temporally relative. The poorest 3 billion live like kings from the Middle Ages in terms of disease, sanitation, et cetera.

Tomorrow we might discover how to double life expectancy…for the wealthy. And then how to upload our consciousness to pseudo-immortal machines…for the wealthy.

I don't care that the hyperrich have gold plated hummers. Gold plated hummers don't improve quality of life, not really. But they have access to things that do improve quality of life, and always will.





mk  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    The poorest 3 billion live like kings from the Middle Ages in terms of disease, sanitation, et cetera.

Considering places such as the slums of Mumbai, I think that might not be true.

rob05c  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're making Special Pleading; I was speaking statistically. Those slums represent extreme poverty, which affects approximately 1 billion people. The average "poorest 3 billion" don't live in extreme poverty.

I'm not dismissing extreme poverty. I was simply making the case that extreme wealth is not acceptable because quality of life is relative.