I was born in 1974 and I have this constant debate with my wife about world politics and historic politics. After traveling the world and reading a bunch of history and living as a poor Native kid in the north … it’s made me realize that the world hasn’t changed all that much.
The world changed for the privileged few North Americans for a few decades in the 60s, 70s and 80s and it felt like things were really going to change but it didn’t. In the meantime, things stayed the same for everyone else … the 90 percent of the rest of the world population.
As a first world resident that benefited from major social change … it feels like there were big changes and that things should progress some more … but when you look at it with a wider lens, the rest of the world hasn’t really moved and has stayed the same, no matter how much it changed in your corner of the globe.
There has been marked progress in reducing poverty over the past decades. According to the most recent estimates, in 2015, 10 per cent of the world’s population lived at or below $1.90 a day. That’s down from 16 per cent in 2010 and 36 per cent in 1990.
@ininewcrow@lemmyshitpost@tygerprints but if you look more is about 50 years, is not much time to have a notable changes, maybe 50 years in the future you see more changes for best or worst
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I was born in 1974 and I have this constant debate with my wife about world politics and historic politics. After traveling the world and reading a bunch of history and living as a poor Native kid in the north … it’s made me realize that the world hasn’t changed all that much.
The world changed for the privileged few North Americans for a few decades in the 60s, 70s and 80s and it felt like things were really going to change but it didn’t. In the meantime, things stayed the same for everyone else … the 90 percent of the rest of the world population.
As a first world resident that benefited from major social change … it feels like there were big changes and that things should progress some more … but when you look at it with a wider lens, the rest of the world hasn’t really moved and has stayed the same, no matter how much it changed in your corner of the globe.
https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/ending-poverty
@ininewcrow @lemmyshitpost @tygerprints but if you look more is about 50 years, is not much time to have a notable changes, maybe 50 years in the future you see more changes for best or worst
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Time truly does fly.