That being said, neither is self satisfied indifference. Depressed apathy towards the well being of billions of people is not the path to ending poverty. (The mantle is now carried by Steven Pinker.) I think there is a genuine upside to that narrative to an extent. Throughout university I was subjected to the Hans Rosling narrative that we are too pessimistic about global poverty.
In his view, statistics spouted by organizations which ostensibly exist to reduce global poverty seem more committed to the impression of reducing poverty than the process itself. Having grown up in rural Swaziland he has had a closer and more extended look at the realities of global poverty than most.ĭespite the rosy depictions of the world we see in the Op-eds and pop science books of Jeffrey Epstein’s rolodex, Jason Hickel remains skeptical. Hickel is an anthropologist at the London School of Economics. If 50 minutes is too long I’ve found reading only the quotes makes for a decent shortened version. The Divide by Jason Hickel, not to be confused with The Divide by Matt Taibbi or even The Great Divide by Joseph Stiglitz, is about global inequality, its current status, its historical origins, and its potential solutions.
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