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Old 10-09-2019, 03:42 PM   #7367 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
The world's wealth per GDP has been on the rise with globalization and automation. An increasing number of people are no longer impoverished. Life expectancy is way up.

Perhaps resource shortages will pose a problem in the future, but that is a different issue than globalization and automation.
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