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Jason Crawford
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The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 4: The Life Well-Lived (part 2) Techno-humanism embraces the need for meaning, but rejects the idea that meaning is eroded by material progress. Material progress has greatly increased the amount of meaning in individual lives, and it can continue to do so—if we let it, and if we choose it. https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-life-well-lived-part-2
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Evan Hudson
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How does “material progress” reach the billions of people living in abject poverty in your projected future?
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Jason Crawford
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Same way it's been doing for 200 years, mostly. Faster if all poor countries can improve their institutions to allow faster economic development, as some have already done.
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Evan Hudson
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So in your view, the way it’s been happening for the last 200 years is adequate, and the burden of change should primarily fall in poor countries in the global south?
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Jason Crawford
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Adequate? No! Progress should be happening much faster The burden of change is primarily on the governments in those countries, yes. If they had better laws and less corruption, they'd be growing a lot faster and their people would be a lot richer. Many success stories to learn from
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Evan Hudson
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I feel like your framing here is letting a lot of criminals in power off the hook. For example, blaming the corruption of politicians in, say, Haiti, Colombia or Pakistan for the poverty and broken systems in those countries and not criminal actors in the worlds of business, intelligence, finance, government.
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Jason Crawford
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If the problem is with the global business/finance world, why have some countries grown much more than others? Since 1960, GDP/capita is up ~32x in South Korea, 29x in Singapore, 17x in Taiwan, and 14x in Ireland. How are those countries able to do so compared to the stagnation of, say, Haiti, Algeria, or Nicaragua? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-penn-world-table?tab=table&time=1960..latest
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