knocking the optimist down a peg

The video I posted earlier has caught one skeptic’s attention.

I guess I am the last person with an internet connection to see this video.

Yes he’s an entertaining and enthusiastic guy. Yes, the rise of China and India is amazing and fantastic. Yes there is a large “middle class” of countries.

But people, have you looked at the horizontal axis of his chart? The distance between $400 and $4000 is the same as the distance between $4000 and $40000.

That is incredibly misleading.

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