@yogthos@mastodon.social Not as ideas, but the context is somewhat different since the cold war ended. I would be curious about more recent research.

There's a lot of work showing that the world has been getting better over the centuries (e.g., https://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7272929/global-poverty-health-crime-literacy-good-news). A question is whether this is because of or despite capitalism (and how entangled the industrial revolution is with capitalism).