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pmontra • today at 3:52 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Yes, but I guess that some people could pedantically argue that a human kind of one billion people living only in a few acceptable areas will have a median standard of living much higher than a human kind of eight billion people spread all around the world. After all, all those millions of displaced people are going to die of old age and their pains will go away with them /s Sarcasm apart, we don't really care much about the pains of the people who were displaced millenia or centuries ago. That's history.

The point of view changes according to the sets of people one belongs to while still being alive, eg living in a warming Denver or attempting not drown in NYC?