https://padlet.com/mmorillo6/casxkw1h3oesi2iw en-us 2022-07-22 21:46:00 UTC 2022-08-18 18:28:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mmorillo6/casxkw1h3oesi2iw/wish/2252947750 Naím explains that between the 90s and 2010, the quality of life of the majority of the world population (the developing world) drastically increased.
In 10 years, extreme povery was cut in half, child mortality and death by disease was reduced, education rates are up, general income has increased. Nearly every single country in the world has improved its human development index.]]> 2022-08-01 18:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mmorillo6/casxkw1h3oesi2iw/wish/2252947750 https://padlet.com/mmorillo6/casxkw1h3oesi2iw/wish/2264701074 better informed people may be harder to control because they either (1) become more autonomous with their ideas and are harder to fool or to convince of certain narratives, or (2) these people are still indeed fooled or convinced, but by other players with other narratives. There are more people expressing their opinions and more eloquent speakers have a platform to reach people. Not only because more people can read, and more books are published, but also because of the internet. More narratives and ideologies are thrown at people, and so when you are trying to persuade people, you are competing against the other narratives that people have heard and might have been convinced of.]]> 2022-08-18 18:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mmorillo6/casxkw1h3oesi2iw/wish/2264701074