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World poverty dipped. It’s true that inequality rose inside countries but it actually decreased on a global scale.

Environmental issues are a byproduct of human development, not of any specific economic system. It is not clear to me how these issues would have been any better under socialist/communist regimes. If anything, the Soviet record on environment and workers health is abysmal.



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