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The definition of poverty is decided by people who have an incentive to say poverty is declining. It changes over time. Why do people take these definitions at
by danharaj 9y ago
The definition of poverty is decided by people who have an incentive to say poverty is declining. It changes over time.
Why do people take these definitions at face value without examining what they actually mean?
- thraway180306 9y agoBut think of the children. I've heard all these metrics tend to correlate with infant mortality rates, so they all must be good. Never mind the affluent US which should be the reference of wealthy, has these things decoupled with mortality increasing.
- toasterlovin 9y agoSo your position is that here has not been a massive, species-wide reduction in poverty (and pretty much every other negative outcome) over the last 250 years?
- danharaj 9y agoMu.