[Fact Review] Factfulness, Understanding the Progressive World

[Fact Review] Factfulness, Understanding the Progressive World

-A good book to read

When I first bought a book, I only saw two things, the cover and the quantity

The feeling that this book's cover is very similar to 'What is justice',
And it was Appendix (source), which accounted for about a quarter of the total.

Most of the books that contain a lot of references in the back of this book
Strongly insisting on self-assertion at the beginning and presenting evidence
There was a lot of repetition, so most of the books like the crown were

Factfulness was unexpectedly filled with episodes of the author
It was easily read like an essay, so I could read it without boring even though I was full of statistics.
There were so many points to think about social problems that I wanted to recommend widely.

-African Development, Secretary-General of the African Union

The main content of the book tells us that mankind became more economically rich than we thought.
The story is presented by presenting various statistics and episodes.
At the end of chapter 7, there is an episode of the African lecture by the artist, which was very interesting.

Author goes to lecture outside the Academic Union, Africa's poorest people will disappear in 20 years
At the end of the talk, the African Union Secretary General tells him without a vision:

"Do you think African people will be happy enough to live in poverty while being content with the disappearance of the poorest people?"
My 50-year vision is that Africans will be welcomed in Europe as tourists, not as unwanted refugees. "

How can a person who receives a monthly salary of tens of thousands of won say, 'If the minimum wage is 8,000 won, it's enough to eat?'
In the same situation, the sentence "Now developed countries live as well as developed countries" is also the author of this book.
(Swedish doctor with a doctorate) Reminded me to rethink the contents of the book.

If this story was at the beginning of the book, it would have been difficult to focus on what the book claimed,
If it was at the end of the book, it would have been so obvious that it would have been a matter of further thinking.
It was good that I put an episode in the middle point where I could think about the whole flow again.

-Korea with factfulness, a country with sufficient income (stage 4)

In the meantime, the $ 30,000 per capita GDP has never been so great.
If you look for Korea on the graph of income and lifespans in color photographs,
Being right next to the United Kingdom, I felt a sense of economic power.

Income levels are comparable to those of the US, Japan, the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Canada called G7.
The population is also small compared to the US and Japan, but it is not much different from European countries.

In addition, Korea is quite mentioned in the book, and representatively, 'Democracy is not necessary for economic development'.
Korea is introduced as a representative country, and the birth rate is changed by income level, not by policy.
Koreans who came to Sweden to learn how to measure greenhouse gas emissions (the world's first quarterly, not annually),
In general, one of the representative countries where income levels have risen positively describes Korea.

But if you think about why we are underestimating ourselves,
We have strong memories of big events such as the IMF financial crisis and gradual economic development (especially growth after the IMF).
It was not easy to recognize, so I thought that Koreans themselves would be underestimating the present state of Korea.

As it takes a lot of time and effort to change the first impression,
Furthermore, the perception of Korea also changes, and there seems to be a significant time lag.
Shouldn't you stay interested in the world to stay in the past and not sound like a braid?