Visual Animation of health and wealth last 200 years

[friesman]

I am a numbers guy, so I find this way of showing stats so amazing. They show health and income numbers for all countries over the last 200 years and actually made it show something that we can understand easily.

 

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/12/200_years_in_4_minutes.php/

 

Brian

 

PS PLEASE dont let this get political, i only put the link here because I thought it was neat.

Edited January 7, 2011 by friesman

[ashley9187]

Ok, I guess that means that those of us in America can just put our collective heads between our collective lower extremities and kiss our collective wealth good by??? Or do we start using our collective (collective sounds too socialist), or do I start using my own self reliant instincts to re-start and begin a new Industrial revolution (revolution sounds to Bolshevik).

 

:dancefool:Yeah like I could that.

[mraf]

Yep, collectively were screwed.In more ways than one.

[friesman]

Gee u guys think different than me. I was thinking if all these other countries are getting more money, they will be wanting to buy the stuff that we have to sell.

 

Brian

[RandyR]

Gee u guys think different than me. I was thinking if all these other countries are getting more money, they will be wanting to buy the stuff that we have to sell.

 

Brian

 

Like derivative stocks and Manhattan real estate?

[ArcsSparks]

How much of that health and money increace over the last 60 years have we given them? and we're still hated in the world. sidepoint where would they be if we cut all foreign aid.

[Aussie Annie]

Very interesting...thank you Brian

[Hummingbird]

 

PS PLEASE dont let this get political, i only put the link here because I thought it was neat.

 

 

That "graph" was a perfect example of what has happened to technology over the years. Forget the economic impact and longer life span, look at PROGRESS !

 

Great video !!!

[ahoutzer]

What do we have to sell? We buy everything from China, except what we buy from South Korea and Japan. Maybe a smidgen from Germany.

[Dave77459]

I saw this a month ago via Slashdot. If you want to see "animated discussions" by left-leaning geeks, there's your place.

 

However, the site often provides interesting insight, such as this:

He slows the presentation to show World War 1 and the Spanish Flu epidemic but he didn't mention the Cultural Revolution in China during the 60's when the large circle representing China takes a HUGE dive. Some analysis relating political/economic systems to this graph is needed. When Smith wrote An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Wealth of Nations, it was because the UK was the outlier in the top right of this graph. Now that a lot of countries are in that quadrant, it is worth noting the outliers are now the few remaining in the lower left. These are the countries whose political systems most interfere with market forces and prevent their citizens from being productive.

Not only is the information interesting, but the fact that such a "huge dive" is intentionally glossed over speaks loudly. Sometimes it isn't what you see that is important, it's what you don't see.

 

Dave

[a1bummer]

I think that was a great idea to illustrate his point. I myself would like to see the US split up into it's subcategories. I can't help but feel that we're screwing ourselves. One thing that keeps popping into my head is how our economy is struggling, yet the cost of living just keeps going up and up. It just seems like big business is just getting greedier and greedier.

 

JMHO, Bill