Three Interesting Things #6

1. Racial Income Disparities: https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/qa6dy6/many_blackwhite_disparities_in_important_life/

2. Changing governments is good:

Change in a country’s leadership:

🔹improves economic performance

🔹increases the human development index

🔹reduces corruption

Causal evidence from close national elections: https://t.co/DrUGWK7Cq3 by @benjaminmarx, @vinpons, and @vincent_rollet pic.twitter.com/bDFVx6rvyi

— Robert Dur (@DurRobert) February 18, 2022

1. Median income increase since 2007:

Two facts many people don't know:

1) The global median income has doubled in 17 years from 2000 to 2017. A stunningly rapid progress the world has *never* seen before. (Adjusted for prices, so not due to inflation)

2) Still half the people in the world have less than $7 per day pic.twitter.com/EfGaZLUVlL

— Dina D. Pomeranz (@DinaPomeranz) November 7, 2021

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