Things have gotten better and progress has been made from times past, it just seems worse now because we have more access to information. We’ve come far, and have further to go!
This meme effectively expired in 2019. COVID reversed out the direction on all of it. About the only thing we haven’t stopped backsliding on is “shareholder value”.
Over the last 20 years, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has almost been cut in half
If you quote this people will applaud gleefully, but if you ask “Which countries have been the most successful at eliminating poverty” you get called a bot.
Of course it’s mostly going to be in Asia and Africa since that’s where the largest concentration of people in extreme poverty was.
There’s no shortage of poverty in Latin America and Africa. However, the states that outperform their peers tend to be the ones westerners hate. Bolivia, South Africa, Burkina Faso…
The extreme poverty one is laughable especially when criteria to define extreme poverty is ridiculous. Extreme poverty in places where you earn less than $1.90 but can still have subsistence farming and community doesn’t make sense - also if living in San Francisco and earning $2/day isn’t extreme poverty… I don’t know what is.
Poverty shouldn’t be tied to capital but to standards of living - that would be a completely different story.
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