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Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA
I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes.
On factory farming
1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last lo...
I haven't got an answer to the direct question but Prof. Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde does some really good work on the economic consequences of current demographic trends and sometimes addresses problems within published data, and reasons why there is divergence amongst datasets. Have a crawl through his X account: https://x.com/JesusFerna7026
As it relates to many developing countries, I think there's a general consensus that a lot of the data (economic, demographic etc.) is at least unreliable and in some cases, just made up.