Or consider that an average of 1% annual global economic growth in the nineteenth century and 2% in the twentieth turned the squalor of the eighteenth century and all the centuries that preceded it into the unprecedented wealth of the twenty-first.7 History does sometimes jump. But it also crawls, and slow, incremental change can be profoundly important.
This is wild - global economic growth only grew by 1 and 2 percent in the last couple centuries - you’d think it would be way more
