Florian Cramer on Sat, 7 Jul 2018 14:29:21 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> Unlocking Proprietorial Systems for Artistic Practice | By Marc Garrett.


And yet ... by nearly every agreed-upon measure, the "cultural,
political and economic systems in place" have contributed to what can be
called--with equal understatement--a significant reduction in global
poverty rates. A 74% reduction since 1990 by some estimates.

Let me guess - your source is Hans Rosling? 

Here's a different take on the matter: http://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/a-confused-statistician/

Florian 
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