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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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7 years, 8 months ago

the evitability of the Irish potato famine

[...] What made this famine so appalling was that it was completely avoidable; it would never have happened if peasants had retained full rights to their ancestral land, where they would have had plenty of space to produce a diversity of crops. In other words, the scarcity that led to the famine wa…

—p.83 The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions Three (65) by Jason Hickel
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the role of sugar and cotton in the Industrial Revolution

[...] The sugar and cotton plantations of the New World supplied Europe with another ecological windfall, much as silver did. For example, sugar came to account for up to 22 per cent of the calories Britain consumed, which reduced the need for domestic agricultural production and freed up labour po…

—p.74 Three (65) by Jason Hickel
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average income would have to be $1.3 million per year

[...] achieving this level of growth would mean driving global per capita income up to $1.3 million. In other words, the average income would have to be $1.3 million per year simply so that the poorest two-thirds of humanity could earn $5 per day. This gives us a sense of just how deeply inequali…

—p.58 Two (33) by Jason Hickel
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relative vs absolute Gini

[...] If a poor country's income goes up from $5,000 to $5,500 (a 10 per cent increase), and a rich country's income goes up from $50,000 to $54,500 (a per cent increase), the Gini index will show decreasing inequality because the income of the poor country is growing faster than that of the rich…

—p.54 Two (33) by Jason Hickel
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if we take China out of the Gini figures

[...] Sudhir Anand and Paul Segal show that if we take China out of the Gini figures, we see that global inequality has been increasing, not decreasing--up from 50 in 1988 to 58 in 2005. This is important, because--once again--China and East Asia are some of the only places where structural adjustm…

—p.53 Two (33) by Jason Hickel