Even homeless people these days live better than Aztec kings a thousand years ago. To be facile, if you want to reduce poverty to zero, merely reduce the pover

Even homeless people these days live better than Aztec kings a thousand years ago. To be facile, if you want to reduce poverty to zero, merely reduce the poverty threshold to zero - as long as you're alive, you're not living in poverty. Based on standards of living, nobody in the United States right now compared to the rest of the world throughout history is living in poverty.