I was not looking for this, and to be honest, had no reason to. But still, it felt good.
While browsing Tim Worstall's blog (fair warning: Tim's blog is often offensive, and even rarely NSFW) on Thursday evening, I was reading this post entitled "Ain't This a Bleedin' Change?"
Tim was invited to speak in Bangladesh about 5 years ago, and has been keeping an eye on its development every since. The level of well-being is not great there, but it has made amazing improvements since being declared the poorest spot on the planet about 50 years ago.
The world’s getting better for hundreds of millions of people, great gobs and chunks at a time.
As David Tufte says:
If you care about people, the economic growth over the last generation is one of the most important stories in all 5,000 years of human civilization.
Yep.
But bugger me, it is working.
Not sure where the quote is from (maybe even this blog). But it's roughly something I say in most classes.
I'd add that if you're not hearing about this once in a while in your preferred political and economic media sources, then they may be morally bankrupt and you just haven't noticed yet.
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