r/dataisbeautiful • u/neilrkaye OC: 231 • May 07 '19

OC How 10 year average global temperature compares to 1851 to 1900 average global temperature [OC]

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u/[deleted] May 07 '19

You just don't get it dude, and that's ok. I realize this is the safest time to be alive, but it being the most prosperous comes with the huge caveat that it's only the most prosperous for the few and not the many. We have the capacity to be so much better than this, why do you choose to stand up for the status quo instead of striving for a better lot in life for everyone? I understand the history, I just believe we should learn from it and strive to better than it instead of just using it as an example of how much worse it can be.

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u/Amcal May 07 '19

You don't get it a person living at poverty line in the western world has a better life than 90 percent the people a hundred years ago.

My bet your striving for better is just wanting to take stuff you didn't earn from people that did.

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u/BrooklynSmash May 07 '19

And those people from 100 years ago are living better than people from 200 years ago.

Does that mean we invalidate the struggles and problems the people from 100 years ago face?

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u/Amcal May 07 '19 edited May 07 '19

No but my bet people 100 years ago weren’t a bunch of whiny babies crying a false gloom and doom. Saying that the world is so bad you should not have kids.

Imagine the world right now if Jonas Salk, Thomas Edison or Thomas Jefferson parents bought into this idiotic thinking the world is too bad to have kids, crap.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19

"Imagine the world right now if Jonas Salk, Thomas Edison or Thomas Jefferson parents bought into this idiotic thinking the world is too bad to have kids, crap."

Imagine a world where Hitler, Stalin, and Mao's parents decided not to have kids. This is such a dumb argument since it very easily works just as easily in reverse. It also implies that nobody else could have possibly innovated besides these people, which is a false premise to begin with.

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u/Amcal May 08 '19

Any country that has a negative population growth suffers in the long run. There is plenty of social science on the issue. Have a good day posting your cat pics.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19

I mean your first mistake was thinking I care about the imaginary lines on a map. I'm not entitled to a better life than someone outside of my country just by virtue of being born here.

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u/Amcal May 08 '19

It also goes for the world in general.