Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Australians set to decide on historic Voice vote" video.

  1. 1:00 "Indigenous people track below national averages on most socio-economic measures". I have no doubt that is true, but are they better or worse off now than they were for the first 59,700 years they inhabited Australia? I'm no expert but I'll wager that they are much, much better off now, with much improved health outcomes, much better education, much longer life expectancies, and much better material lives. Indigenous people in Australia and everywhere else in the world have a right to live their lives the way they want, but if they choose to continue a hunter-gatherer or nomadic lifestyle, they will never reach the level of prosperity that the rest of us enjoy. We were all hunter-gatherers once, but some of us realized there's another, much better, way of living.
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  2. What's the evidence that "we make better decisions" when we listen to indigenous communities? Simply put, indigenous communities tend to live lifestyles that we left behind thousands of years ago. We've lived those lives and we found something much better. If anything, indigenous communities should listen to us so they can improve their standing in life. They don't have to, but it would certainly benefit them.
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