Three Interesting Things #6
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Racial Income Disparities: https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/qa6dy6/many_blackwhite_disparities_in_important_life/
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Changing governments is good:
Change in a country’s leadership:
— Robert Dur (@DurRobert) February 18, 2022
🔹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
- Median income increase since 2007:
Two facts many people don't know:
— Dina D. Pomeranz (@DinaPomeranz) November 7, 2021
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
See you next week!