200 countries in 4 minutes. A visual history. Watch this. (YouTube)

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That's friggin awesome....but why does he have to sound like a crazy Nazi?

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Good visual to slam the notion on how bad the world is now compared to "the good old days".

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That's friggin awesome....but why does he have to sound like a crazy Nazi?

Your bias against Europeans with accents is showing. If this guy sounded Latin American, would you accuse him of sounding like a crazy follower of Che? Probably not.

/wherein i thread-hijack my own thread

Good visual to slam the notion on how bad the world is now compared to "the good old days".

Yup. +1.

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Your bias against Europeans with accents is showing. If this guy sounded Latin American, would you accuse him of sounding like a crazy follower of Che? Probably not.

He's a Socialist, right? I rest my case, Fuhrer.

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Neat. Do you trust his data? Is $40,000 adjusted for a particular timeframe? Obviously in 1810 no one earned $40K that was a princely sum then. Today, it's not very much in 1st world countries and doesn't really define "rich". I guess it must be keyed to something like 1970 values?

I betcha there are counties in the USA that he could pull his trick of popping out of the bubble, and they'd also land in sub Saharan Africa.

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Do you trust his data?

Here is his website- http://www.gapminder.org/data/.

I am going through it right now.