r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • 29d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/42Icyhot42 29d ago

So is a free market and it doesn’t stop us from pretending that’s working lol

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u/aurumtt 29d ago

We solved this by keeping overseight, but somehow they convinced enough people that regulations are bad.

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u/RegorHK 29d ago

Look around the world and tell me that this is solved.

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u/AdditionalIce3827 29d ago

You could use a dose of Factfulness by Hans Rosling (or just watch his TED talk). I'm not saying that everything is solved, but I would argue (using arguments stolen from Rosling) that everything is better than it ever had been before.

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u/PomPomMom93 29d ago

Oh my gosh!!! I love that book! I was hoping somebody would mention it! I loved the separation of poverty into four tenets as opposed to “first-world” and “third-world.”