We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously

Posted on AllSides December 22nd, 2019
From The Right
poverty, global inequality, living standards
OPINION

Little of this made the news, because good news is no news.

Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 percent of the world’s population for the first time. It was 60 percent when I was born. Global inequality has been plunging as Africa and Asia experience faster economic growth than Europe and North America; child mortality has fallen to record low...

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