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Over the past fifty years global food production has grown exponentially, deceasing hunger. https://buff.ly/2HayCKk #fightinghunger #agriculture

Despite the popular narrative of economic decline, the American family is earning more than ever before recorded.

Research found willingness to hurt the poor to pull down the rich is predicted by an individual's proneness to envy.

Globally, a worker could expect to work 2,227 hours in 1950. By 2016? Only 1,855 hours. That's a decline of 17 percent. Over the same time period, global inflation-adjusted income per capita per year rose from $11,578 to $24,400, or 111 percent.

Humanity is 300,000 years old. The age of abundance is 200 years old. That’s 0.07 percent of our species’ time on Earth. Is it any wonder that we are predisposed toward pessimism? Read about the roots of pessimism here:

“'Why are some people poor?' That’s always the wrong question. The question is 'why are some people rich?'"

1 in 6 people would raise taxes on the rich even if they knew it would also hurt the poor to do so. Why? Envy.

Humanity is 300,000 years old. The age of abundance is 200 years old. That’s 0.07 percent of our species’ time on Earth. Is it any wonder that we are predisposed toward pessimism? Read about the roots of pessimism here:

92% of Americans think the share of the world population in poverty has increased or stayed the same over the last two decades. Of those who realize poverty has declined, most underestimate the extent. In fact, global poverty halved over the past 20 years.

"In half a century we have gone from 75% of the world living in extreme poverty, to just 9 percent." - @mattwridley https://buff.ly/2HtotZk