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For all the morons who say capitalism doesn’t work https://t.co/AW6yDRHj1C

This is the most amazing graph. On this scale, only the industrial revolution has mattered. The rise and fall of Rome, several different times losing ~10% of population, major shifts in the social order and we just keep humming along in what looks like a flat line until BAM https://t.co/p0BK5MEjTF

Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀

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During the 180 years from 1820 to 2000, world output per person increased roughly eleven times, leading to an equally dramatic fall in the global rate of extreme poverty—from around 90 percent in 1820 to roughly 10 percent as of 2015.

Jeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions