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bioemerl · 2987 days ago · link · · parent · post: Robert J. Shiller: The Coming Anti-National Revolution
if you set a prediction for a long enough set of time, then it is bound to come true. In the time frame listed, it is likely that poverty worldwide is going to cure itself, as the world presently has poverty diminishing at great rates. In much the same way, the drastic reduction in violence is mostly thought to be related to decreases in poverty and lack of lead in gasoline and other products, not some "empathetic society" becoming a thing.