/bant/ - International Random

relegalise slavery.

>The number of deaths from natural disasters is 25% of what it was 100 years ago.
While this represents a respectable decrease in fatalities, the rising frequency of natural events continues to present an environmental and regulatory challenge to humanity.
>Just 7% of the world's population lived in a free or relatively free society in 1850. Today that number is closer to two-thirds.
Judging purely by personal liberties in the libertarian sense, sure. The majority of Western countries constitute a "free or relatively free society". However, without a clear definition of this term, question are raised; for example, many de jure global organizations find themselves at the de facto behest of Western interests, allowing particularly the United States to declare, through these organizations, a particular country to be less-than-free: Take, for example, Cuba, which is freer than many Western nations when considering the metric of daily economic coercion (that is, utilities, rent, the like), but significantly less free in terms of its markets and liberties attached to commerce, due in part to its own policy and in part to a decades long embargo. This is how someplace like, for example, Singapore, may score highly on freedom scores while Cuba scores low. Additionally, even assuming an optimistic definition of free society, considering the span of time (1850-2026), two-thirds is not an exceptionally impressive rate of progress.
>Time spent on laundry fell from 11.5 hours a week in 1920 to 1.5 hours in 2014.
Meaning more time to work. Hardly utopian.
>nuclear stockpiles
>violent crime
Correct actually.
>Over the last 20 years, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has almost been cut in half.
A large portion of which are citizens of the People's Republic of China, who can publish such numbers declaring they've defeated poverty, by simply lowering the poverty line.

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This can be done and it can be done ethically for society. Through the implementation of a dictatorship of the proletariat, and the benevolent institution of the gulag, we can educate the kulaks on the toil of the proletariat, essentially turning them into upstanding revolutionary citizens, and benefiting from the labor produced by their educational journey for an extremely reduced cost.