FiftyTwo comments on Politics Discussion Thread January 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 02 January 2013 03:48:31PM 3 points [-]

How do you define 'prosperity?' Do you mean it in a narrow economic sense of a wider sense (e.g. ensuring general utility).

Comment author: buybuydandavis 03 January 2013 08:30:10AM 4 points [-]

Whose prosperity are we talking about? What time frame?

Comment author: RomeoStevens 03 January 2013 07:41:32PM 0 points [-]

I'll take maximum economic prosperity now and leave maximum social prosperity to the point when most of the world is industrialized and children aren't being arbitrarily tortured by disease and starvation. I don't care about the first world poor.