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Soviet propaganda could not increase the productivity of communist workers to Western levels. To incentivize workers, communists had to resort to terror. In the long run, free economies tend to produce higher growth.

In 2016 a paper was published by 32 authors from 24 institutions in 8 countries that analyzed satellite data and concluded that there had been a roughly 14% increase in green vegetation over 30 years. Full article: https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=2018

In 1960, South Korea's average income was $1,102. Ghana's was $1,053. By 2015, South Korea had reached $25,022, while Ghana only rose to $1,696. Yet Ghana received much more in net development aid per capita than South Korea between 1960 and 2015.

Heroes of progress: Cesare Beccaria, who made the case against cruel, unusual, and capricious punishment. @HumanProgress https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=2453 #HumanProgressData

All income groups in the world have seen gains in real income over the last few decades.

Extreme poverty has declined from afflicting 85% of the world's population in 1800 to less than 10% today. If that trend continues, extreme poverty will be gone by 2030.

The rapid growth of the global middle class is striking. According to the latest calculations, one person leaves extreme poverty every second, whereas another five people per second enter the middle class.

If fusion makes energy "too cheap to meter," we could desalinate as much fresh water as we fancied. We could grow food indoors and release the countryside back to nature.

Extreme poverty has declined from afflicting 85% of the world's population in 1800 to less than 10% today. If that trend continues, extreme poverty will be gone by 2030.

In 2016 a paper was published by 32 authors from 24 institutions in 8 countries that analyzed satellite data and concluded that there had been a roughly 14% increase in green vegetation over 30 years.