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awesome paper on GDP vs GPI and other development indicators

http://www.bioline.org.br/pdf?nd13075

very good and up to date explainer on gdp vs gdp per capita vs nominal gdp etc

https://theconversation.com/vital-signs ... -off-60344

http://www.eoionline.org/blog/x-marks-t ... -dig-here/

http://startsat60.com/stories/living/ja ... ment-rates - a bit about the effect of visas on employment - some errors in it too, playing down the case against visas

https://theconversation.com/the-true-st ... debt-36345

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/06 ... -auckland/

good article about the stupidity of population ponzi's featuring the actual term population ponzi!

A LOT of people will tell you that in 1970 things started to change.

Notice that this is the year that scientists said we were starting to consume an unsustainable level of the Earth's natural resources, and it was the time when the Limits to growth book was published.

I wonder if the selfish greed and stagnating wages is a result of the scientists drawing attention to looming problems, which caused the employers and capital-holders in society to withhold their previous post-war generosity to perhaps reduce fertility, or whether the unsustainable character of the free-market economy alone caused the collective intelligence of humans to stagnate on it's own?

My guess is the former. Greed set in, the war was forgotten, the sense of togetherness had been degraded, it became one man for himself again.

the first link is a reference to a case that we should disregard the 1.25 poverty lines as absurd and instead adopt $5 or $10 per day as the mark for poverty. Based on the different levels of poverty definition its actually gone up, not down, as many neolibs profess -as a justification for that ideology.

https://www.actionaid.org.uk/sites/defa ... _final.pdf

Then if you use the second link you can get per capita expenditures for the year for various countries and see their dollars per day.

http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/data.aspx