• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    Most diseases that would have killed you a few hundred years ago have been solved

    RFK wants to ban vaccines entirely in the US. They’ll come back frighteningly fast if he does that. They’re only “solved” as long as we keep up our vigilance.

    in most of the world slavery has been eradicated.

    There are more slaves alive today than at any point in history.

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      But much much less as a percent of population.

      I don’t want to diminish slavery in any way, but the indebted servitude of now is very different to the, for example, Roman concept of slaves as property that you walk through the street with.