This graph is useless. It’s bullshit spewed by the likes of Pinker, and you know why it’s bullshit? Because it measures poverty as “wage earned below a certain level”. It ignores access to goods and services outside payment, i.e., it ignores all pre-capitalist forms of production.
It’s as I measured poverty in “grain grown by the mean person per year” (not average total per capita, but mean person). Nowadays nobody grows grain, 200 years ago everyone did, the graph would show skyrocketing poverty.
Most production in pre-capitalist societies was for self-consumption or for the immediate community. This graph simply doesn’t take this into account.
You’re missing my point entirely. I’m saying the world is a much better place because of technology, and OP is a fool for implying it hasn’t improved anyone’s lives.
Here’s infant mortality, another “happy” chart showing how technology vastly improves human lives! It’s not all doom and gloom, life isn’t as bad as the chronically online make out if you look at how bad it was!
I answered the topic “has technology ever improved working hours, conditions, leisure time?” with examples of how it objectively has.
Can you explain your reasoning otherwise; or are we just here to have an doomer circlejerk about the existence of poverty instead?
This graph is useless. It’s bullshit spewed by the likes of Pinker, and you know why it’s bullshit? Because it measures poverty as “wage earned below a certain level”. It ignores access to goods and services outside payment, i.e., it ignores all pre-capitalist forms of production.
It’s as I measured poverty in “grain grown by the mean person per year” (not average total per capita, but mean person). Nowadays nobody grows grain, 200 years ago everyone did, the graph would show skyrocketing poverty.
Most production in pre-capitalist societies was for self-consumption or for the immediate community. This graph simply doesn’t take this into account.
Capitalist bullshit
You’re missing my point entirely. I’m saying the world is a much better place because of technology, and OP is a fool for implying it hasn’t improved anyone’s lives.
Here’s infant mortality, another “happy” chart showing how technology vastly improves human lives! It’s not all doom and gloom, life isn’t as bad as the chronically online make out if you look at how bad it was!