Here's just a tiny sample of the many ways in which ordinary Americans today are Bill Gates-like rich compared to almost all humans who've ever lived:
None of us has ever starved to death
Each of us has indoor plumbing
Above our heads, each of us has a solid roof rather than a vermin-infested earthen roof
Each of us can converse in real time to people one mile or 1,000 miles away
None of us has died of smallpox
Every one of us born since the mid-1950s is successfully inoculated against polio
Our life expectancy is decades longer...
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Prosperity, technology & economic freedom
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When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.
Bl. Theresa of Calcutta
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