Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2048
ZnU My grandfather found that moving west back then was a very profitable move. Settled some land and applied for a loan to build a house and acquire...
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I have no idea if that's true, but even if it is, it's irrelevant. Maybe farming was a really cushy job in 1900 or something. The figure above is the actual GDP per capita figure, not adjusted for anything or manipulated in any way.
Well, no.
So divide by 52 or something. *Maybe* take an extra 30% out of the newer number for higher taxes (though, of course, you get a lot more in the way of government services than you did in 1900, as a result of those taxes).
The numbers still aren't even close.
Well, no.
No, we're not. I just gave you the actual figures, and you didn't even address them.
Once again, the graph:
And that's just since 1950. If you plotted it out all the way from 1900, it would look even more extreme.
I don't understand why people have so much trouble believing that with factory robots and computers and longer life spans and a much more educated population and huge economies of scale and all the rest of it, we're a lot more productive now than we were in 1900. (Or even 1970.)
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