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  Why don't they just run defrag then? They will have to optimize the drives first, but then they should be all good right?
context: GDP alone is a horrible marker of a country's wealth. If that wealth is not distributed in a meaningful way it means absolutely nothing to the majority of the population. >
  
  The rich and won't mind the 7%. They already have more than they can spend in many lives. What they are afraid of is governments not in their pockets setting up rules no longer favor them. >
  
  The rich will just raise prices by 12%, blame fragmentation, then give themselves big bonuses and blow most of it on cocaine and houses they'll gift to their kids. >
  
  Why don't they just run defrag then? They will have to optimize the drives first, but then they should be all good right? >
  
  Inflation is costing me more than that >
  
  Serious question, does anyone or any institution care what the IMF says?  Their track record is horrible. >
  
  Are we better off now than before the globalization boom of the last 20 - 30 years?  Well, China certainly is. >
  
  Over the past 30 years global poverty has reduced by  an average of 47 million people PER YEAR. 
  
  Are we better off now than before the globalization boom of the last 20 - 30 years?
  
  Yes, yes we are. >
  
  Poverty for who tho? And at who's expense >
  
  Serious question, does anyone or any institution care what the IMF says?  Their track record is horrible. >
  
  GDP alone is a horrible marker of a country's wealth. If that wealth is not distributed in a meaningful way it means absolutely nothing to the majority of the population. >
  
  GDP is by definition not a measure of wealth >
  
  I can't even begin to understand the point you're trying to make. But technically and contextually you're incorrect. >
  
  The rich and won't mind the 7%. They already have more than they can spend in many lives. What they are afraid of is governments not in their pockets setting up rules no longer favor them. >
  
  The rich will just raise prices by 12%, blame fragmentation, then give themselves big bonuses and blow most of it on cocaine and houses they'll gift to their kids.