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Max Roser
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Max Roser's personal blog at maxroser.com covers economics, data and history. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
Writing and data on long-run human progress, including life expectancy and development statistics. HN commenters cite it as a data source and link it when discussing progress measures.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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The social contract is primarily between an individual and society at a local level. What makes the social contract local? Why not say the social contract is primarily between and individual and his race, his class, his clan or his religion? At one time it was considered a violation of the "social contract" for a white man to hire cheaper negro workers (language chosen to evoke that era). Many folks still consider i…
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on “Things I was unprepared for as a lead developer”Submitted 100 Charts Project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMore inequality and poverty is the exact opposite of what happened. http://www.maxroser.com/economic-world-history-in-one-chart/ http://ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-pr...
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on “Things I was unprepared for as a lead developer”Submitted Funding Request for Our World in Data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMost people - at least most people here - know that a lot of those publicized numbers are due to infant mortality, but ... Post-childhood life expectancy has gone up in smaller amounts as the parent comment says. The grand numbers ("life expectancy was just 60 in 1900!") obviously reflect infant and childhood mortality, but we've increased the average lifespan in the United States by 2-3 years in the last few decade…
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on “If you're alive in 30 years you might be in 1000 years too”Submitted Economic world history in one chart as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAnd yet, there is no country in the world that has lower life expectancy now than 200 years ago. http://www.maxroser.com/everyone-is-better-off-life-expectan...
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on “You Do Not Have to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day”Outsourcing and globalization has caused wages to increase and inequality to decrease. Immigration has similar effects. http://www.maxroser.com/economic-world-history-in-one-chart/ Oops, ruined the narrative.
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on “Decline in the labor share of income in the U.S.”The consequences are a massive drop in poverty. http://ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-pr... Also a massive drop in inequality, if that's the sort of thing you care about. http://www.maxroser.com/economic-world-history-in-one-chart/
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on “U.S. Paychecks Grow at Record-Slow Pace”The people saw vastly increasing incomes and life expectancy, primarily at the bottom. Also massive and unprecedented decreases in poverty. http://www.maxroser.com/economic-world-history-in-one-chart/ https://ourworldindata.org/world-poverty/ https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/74560291412360396 Oh, by "people", did you mean "privileged westerners"? The "people" also saw no benefit from desegregation if you define…
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on “Tony Blair: Brexit’s Stunning Coup”Title is misleading. Globally inequality is falling. The reason for this is primarily that the poor are getting richer. http://www.maxroser.com/economic-world-history-in-one-chart/ http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPOVRES/Resources/47722... Article means inequality within certain arbitrary borders.
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on “Income inequality today may be higher today than in any other era”All that statistics says is a lot of people have debt. I personally have more wealth than about half the world in my wallet - I've got about $150 in there, and billions of people have negative net worth. Global inequality is actually declining, by the way, so can't modern capitalism get some credit for that? http://www.maxroser.com/economic-world-history-in-one-chart/ https://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Gradu…
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on “Humans Who Dream Of Companies That Won't Need Us”Inequality is falling, not rising, due mainly to increasing incomes at the bottom. http://www.maxroser.com/economic-world-history-in-one-chart/ Wages within the US are in decline because of a shift to non-wage benefits. Worker compensation has done nothing but increase, there are just a bunch of laws (e.g. Obamacare) making it optimal for companies not to increase wages. https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/…
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on “Amazon Proves Infertile Soil for Unions, So Far”Inequality isn't compounding though (at least this century). It's shrinking rapidly. http://www.maxroser.com/economic-world-history-in-one-chart/ https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/745602914123603968 But I'm curious though - by what mechanism will such decisions actually cause the Matthew effect? For examples in that article, it's somewhat clear - e.g., the famous mathematician becomes more famous because people n…
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on “Cognitive roadblocks to reconciling merit and diversity”I like the techno optimism of this guy. Max Roser's work is more holistic and maybe more important: "Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals:" https://sdg-tracker.org/ https://www.maxroser.com/
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on “Make the future bright again: On building a new philosophy of progress”
