(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Two more points about the TED Talk by Steven Pinker.
First, how many of those improved parameters of global life are dependent on prosperity? Most of them.
An impoverished society doesn't do medical research to find new cures for disease. That society doesn't build hospitals with cutting edge diagnostic equipment. Its people can't give enough to fund charitable medical teams. The health of a community improves when its members become wealthier.
An impoverished society can't afford to educate all its kids for decades. That society probably can't afford free education at all.
When a society starts creating its own wealth, life improves in so many ways.
Second, the obvious - humanity is never perfected by wealth. Like Jesus Christ said, "one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.”
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