Fun fact: when people count “victims of communism” they often include children not born because women were granted more rights under communism and didn’t have to stay home to be forced baby making machines.
Economic growth is my favourite topic in the world to read and write about. I've come to view it broadly as civilization's capacity to solve problems simultaneously. It is the causal mechanism for almost everything we care about.
A comprehensive case against degrowth.
So you should not defend freedom of the press unless you are a journalist, artistic freedom unless you are an artist, gay right unless you are gay, immigration unless you are an immigrant, academic freedom unless you are an academic, and trans rights unless you are trans?
You CANNOT have hyperwealth without hyperpoverty. A billionaire exists in one country because child labor exists in another.
Stock markets grow by looting countries raw. That’s the reality of capitalism: the misanthropic greed of the rich is fed by devastating the poor.