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No one is celebrating child labor. But the question is how that compares to what these kids would be doing otherwise (ie, starving, dying of preventable disease, etc). If the overa…

Yes there are all sorts of evils associated with capitalism, such as the concentration of wealth and environmental destruction we're seeing. The optimistic narrative that I adopt h…

It is a big claim. It's probably the biggest, most important claim of the millennium. And it is really, really good for hundreds of millions (maybe billions). These two are pretty …

Yes, the consumer brand (HSBC in this one for example) is printed and advertised heavily on the money: https://www.leftovercurrency.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/...

Actual quote from the source article, literally by Michael Scott: >Pure Flix films managing partner Michael Scott told AAP in Chiang Rai, “I see this as a major Hollywood film with…

Basically buying stuff made in poor countries. This (more than literally anything else) has made a staggering improvement in the lives of hundreds of millions of people over the la…

So it was $3M paid for by a rich guy? Was he going to donate the money to charity if he didn't spend it on this?

I read he died in a flash flood. Might not have been a mistake so much as an unexpected turn of events in a dangerous, dynamic environment.

Well, sure, but the people having 8 kids in Sudan probably aren't checking the comments on HN for family planning advice. So they are probably (well, not probably)... they ARE goin…

But a lower percentage are in poverty every year.

>Yet who shows up for the 3.1 million children who die of malnutrition every year? Bill Gates and tens of thousands of aid workers globally. The Chinese Communist Party and busines…

In Hong Kong paper money is designed and issued by private banks. Works fine.

>>When they prize their own intelligence, they have false confidence about areas they have zero expertise in, purely because they feel they can figure it out. I wonder how this squ…

Which makes complete sense. He is the most powerful individual in a country of 300+ million people. If he needs a certain thing to keep him operating at peak efficiency and focus, …