| > how do you explain the increase in the standard of living over the last 100 years? https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption That will catch up to us. It already has, in many parts of the world, and it's not looking like it'll get better soon. And let's not forget, it's not just people who have paid the price. > The contemporary rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than the background extinction rate, the historically typical rate of extinction (in terms of the natural evolution of the planet); also, the current rate of extinction is 10 to 100 times higher than in any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of Earth. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction The ecocide which we've inflicted on the planet for the last 100 years will some day be seen for what it is - an atrocity. https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995 All of which is to say nothing about the inequality in how that shareholder wealth is distributed, which is incredibly short-sighted for literally billions of reasons. 8 Americans own more wealth than 4 billion humans. It's perverse beyond comprehension. |
When the going gets tough...
About the inequality : it is really bad, but hundreds years ago, the poor were starving because of lack of food, in stark contrast with landlords and knights and kings.
Today an equal amount of or more, people die from too much food than of too little.
My point is, you need to take a step back and look from a bit more distance to see the real trend. Things are bad now, because we are at a maximum.