Friday, March 24, 2023

The Amount of Suffering

Midnight Oil - "Beds Are Burning"


As I mentioned in Trends vs Numbers, there are approximately as many people enslaved today as in 1700.

Similarly, in The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander points out that more Black men are in the United State's carceral system today than were enslaved in 1850.

So again: while a lot of progress has been made on the percentage of people enslaved (starving, under-educated, etc.), there is almost certainly more severe human suffering today than ever before. (To say nothing about non-human suffering, of course.)

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