[–] [S] 17 points 6 months ago

Yeah, the machines that they smashed had been in use in England for 2 centuries at that point. It's very unlikely that they just decided to rebel against this 2 century old "new technology" because they were some primitive brutes as they are depicted. History is written by the victors, and in this case capitalists were successful in tarnishing their reputation for centuries.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 6 months ago

    Dunno what you're trying to prove here, apart from "removing an outlier from the data makes the data closer to the average", which is pretty obvious.

    But you can clearly see that the graph shows Europe, not EU, so using your same calculation with the population of Europe, which is 745 million and excluding France, the result is 1.13.

    Also I don't see any indication that OurWorldInData is using an average of countries (which would be stupid). Considering their jobs are statistics, they probably know how to aggregate per population, aka a weighted average.

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