Public Address | Cafe | Polity: The most important graph in the world https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364064#post364064 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364064#post364064 Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:15:15 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364055#post364055 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364055#post364055 I’m not ready to lay down and die, accepting the slide into rising inequality and the violent tumult that it is likely to lead to.

Well us plebs mostly have no choice but to come to some kind of acceptance of the venality of our fellow humans, cause we cant…

]]> Fri, 22 Jul 2016 07:17:09 +1200 tussock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364051#post364051 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364051#post364051 Percentage growth rates aren't particularly useful for understanding things like growth in wealth, in that 1000% of nothing is still nothing, the peak at 50% may well represent a much smaller net growth than the dip at 80%.

Late 80's is also a weird start point, it's mostly going to…

]]> Fri, 22 Jul 2016 02:09:56 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364046#post364046 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364046#post364046 Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:39:05 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364042#post364042 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364042#post364042 Work is not an end in itself.

In a moneyed global society it shouldnt be, but it is to a lot of people.

nationalism, and it’s corollary, racism.

Hey if you like its a manifestation of discontent. I have lived through these changes and to see what those years have…

]]> Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:05:57 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364037#post364037 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364037#post364037 Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:32:23 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364033#post364033 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364033#post364033 Thu, 21 Jul 2016 18:49:34 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364027#post364027 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364027#post364027 it seemed plausible.
It was spin from the moment it kicked off back in the 80's
Coupled with the continuing gutless attacks on pay and conditions in the so called "first" world. Improving the plight of poor nations was never on the agenda it happened purely by coincidence.

]]> Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:25:28 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364023#post364023 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364023#post364023 Really! So the sales pitch was what?

That globalization is good for the developing world. I've heard that claim many times and it seemed plausible.

I'm not sure I can clearly see everything happening in this graph as a result of globalization, though. The high growth in the developing world…

]]> Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:41:17 +1200 Moz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364016#post364016 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364016#post364016 Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:17:14 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364015#post364015 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364015#post364015 Politically, it was never part of globalisation’s sales pitch
Really! So the sales pitch was what?
If we take advantage of lower wages and lousy working conditions in the third world and move our factories off shore we can make more money.....(.and improve living in the third world.)
And all…

]]> Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:25:25 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364014#post364014 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-the-most-important-graph-in-the-world/?p=364014#post364014 Discussion from blog post.

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