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Agreed! First time below 10% since mankind's creation of poverty. I can't comment on the causality of capitalism, but I agree with Mandela that poverty is manma
by raymondgh 11y ago
Agreed! First time below 10% since mankind's creation of poverty. I can't comment on the causality of capitalism, but I agree with Mandela that poverty is manmade.
- wyager 11y agoAre you one of those people who believes in the biblical history where people lived to be 200 years old and such? At what point in the past was the average person better off than they are now?
- raymondgh 11y agoBefore you posted this comment :) In all seriousness, I'm interpreting poverty as lacking the basic capacity to participate in society. In that sense, the average score of something like the human development index is not relevant to whether or not systemic exclusion of classes of people in society is prevalent. The organization of resource-controlling groups in industry and government are generally what determines the social and economic mobility of a population. Before some point in civilized history, these constructs did not exist to create such vast disparity in human dignity and wealth. In other words, neither the cause nor the existence of poverty is measurable by the average standard of living.