There are a number of problems with this graph, though. A lot of people underestimate just how much life has improved over the last two centuries: /kuII7j4AuW- Bill Gates January 19, 2019 Pinker and Gates have gone even further, saying we shouldn’t complain about rising inequality when the very forces that deliver such immense wealth to the richest are also eradicating poverty before our very eyes. These figures have been trotted out in the past year by everyone from Steven Pinker to Nick Kristof and much of the rest of the Davos set to argue that the global extension of free-market capitalism has been great for everyone. And it’s not just Gates who’s grabbed on to it. It shows that the proportion of people living in poverty has declined from 94% in 1820 to only 10% today. Of the six graphs – developed by Max Roser of Our World in Data – the first has attracted the most attention by far. “A lot of people underestimate just how much life has improved over the past two centuries.” “This is one of my favourite infographics,” he wrote. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world.L ast week, as world leaders and business elites arrived in Davos for the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates tweeted an infographic to his 46 million followers showing that the world has been getting better and better. But when we let the bad news take on outsize proportions instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. In Factfulness, legendary statisticians Hans, Anna and Ola Rosling offer a radical new explanation of why this happens, and reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing how many young women go to school how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong.
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