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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, by Steven Pinker

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Those who condemn modern capitalist societies for callousness toward the poor are probably unaware of how little the pre-capitalist societies of the past spent on poor relief.
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Whataboutism
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I think his point here was that things are better now than they used to be which is probably true
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I guess I disagree with his underlying assumption what we can ignore contemporary suffering, although let's be honest, who doesn't?
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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