 |
| The Nativity at Night c. 1490 |
Freedom from want, loneliness, ignorance, danger, disease, discomfort and drudgery.
From Richard Rahn:
As we go into this Christmas week, you should count your blessings that you live in 2014. ...
People in the world live far better today than they did a mere half-century ago. World per-capita gross domestic product is now a little more than $14,000 per year, a little less than where the United States was in 1960 or where the Japanese and United Kingdom were in the mid-1970s (inflation adjusted). In October, the World Bank reported that those living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 15 percent in 2011. ...
Read the whole thing, here.
