Gaza Strip
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Gaza Strip is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 29, 2024 and August 06, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “the Gaza Strip has (had?) a higher GDP per capita than India”; “ban refugees from the Gaza Strip”. It most often appears alongside Italy, Scotland, Switzerland.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 29, 2024
- Last seen: August 06, 2024
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- Italy (2 shared issues)
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- Scotland (2 shared issues)
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- Switzerland (2 shared issues)
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- Vietnam (2 shared issues)
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- @BoyanSlat (1 shared issues)
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- @eigenrobot (1 shared issues)
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- @JackTindale (1 shared issues)
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- @literalbanana (1 shared issues)
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- @NiohBerg (1 shared issues)
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- @seanw_m (1 shared issues)
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- A16Z (1 shared issues)
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- Abolition Of Man (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
46: Did you know: the Gaza Strip has (had?) a higher GDP per capita than India. I’m not sure what to think upon learning this. Obviously Gaza’s main problems aren’t economic, and being invaded and bombed is bad no matter how good your economy is. But I also had a sense that Gaza was a uniquely bad economic basketcase even before the recent war. How good a measure is GDP when a country is under severe sanctions? What about when one country is mostly rural and the other mosty urban? Or is this just another case of Westerners being unable to comprehend the scale of suffering caused by ordinary global poverty?
An obvious counterexample to this is all the extremely successful people from privileged upbringings. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg all had great childhoods. So did Caesar and Napoleon. So did Einstein and von Neumann. Meanwhile, there are millions of poor people and war victims who have lived lives of constant horrible trauma without much benefit. If success and creativity were proportional to suffering, the West would have to ban refugees from the Gaza Strip, lest they take all the spots in the best colleges and form an elite billionaire overclass.