There are more slaves than ever before, but they are a smaller proportion of the human race
Of course if you're going for absolute numbers, it's hard to beat our 8B population, but it makes more sense to be speaking in percentages.
Doesn't cover anything more than the past couple of decades. That's not 'any time in history', just a very minute and cherry picked segment of it. Go back to the medieval era and before and see what wealth inequality looked like then.
After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot.
There's value having tedious work done by AI so it can provide inspiration to real people, which is exactly what happened in this case.
So, it's a monkeys-on-typewriters situation with the computer able to try and reject the hammering of who knows how many square pegs into round holes until it finally arrives at a workable conclusion, which a human has already bested.
Gee, sounds like it's enabling people! The horror.
This is categorically failing to set the world on fire,
Things can be useful in the right context without setting the world on fire.
We have more slaves now than at anytime in history. We have greater wealth inequality than at any time in history.
Lul
And I never cease to get amazed how many upvotes they get despite being logically incoherent. Kinda disappoints me to think the average lemming isn't any better at critical thinking than the tiktokers we love to make fun of.
Depends on your definition of novel.
It's perfectly possible to drive 1 handed without any special setup. I do it regularly. You just need an automatic (non manual) shift.
Is the name supposed to mean something to most people?
all seats should be reclined 100% of the time and you should get an up-slanted pillow for your back so you can sit upright.
Replace 'extra pillow' with 'chair back that can be raised' and guess what, you've got the current situation.
The yellow ribbon that's literally used in dozens of countries worldwide, sometimes with more than a single meaning per country?
I grew up in a country that's officially anti Israel since forever, and even I don't know that. Just because it may be common knowledge in your circles doesn't make it so worldwide.
But that's still based on random points in history. Their argument is basically 'climate change started at this point, so that's where the max sustainable population is'. Which makes absolutely no sense. Technologies were different, cultural attitudes were different, yadda yadda. It's Malthusian arguments in a new (and less logical) wrapper.
Granted, my bigger peeve is players who can't sit still and pay attention during the teach.
Or perhaps you just didn't bother looking.
https://wid.world/document/inequality-in-history-a-long-run-view-wid-world-working-paper-2024-05/
No disagreement there then, except for which metric is more important.
You better start including serfs and peasants, 99% of the population historically, to those slave number comparisons then. Though there's a good argument to be made they should be included anyway.
Face it, compared to the entirety of human history, we're in a golden age. Things ONLY look bleak when you're looking at recent history. And even then, only in the western world. The rest of us from outside the Anglosphere have pretty much only seen things improving in the past century.