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Global poverty is at an all time low, hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of poverty in the past decade alone. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/19/

• dredmorbius 8y ago
  That's talking mostly cross-purposes. Inequality is most socially acute within a given society, culture, or country. And inequality, poverty, and social precariousness have been escallating in the US and other generally more advanced countries. Most global poverty alleviation has occurred in one country and one country only: China. The level of poverty alleviation is also based on an extreme measure -- dollars per day ($27/day is $10k/yr). Which, yes, makes a tremendous difference, but it's not as if we're talking about middle-class lifestyles. There's a whole host of other issues with the "the world is a better place" story -- yes, there is some truth to it, but if that's the beginning and ending of your argument, you've left out one hell of a lot of salient points. Many of which are causing very real pain for people across the advanced world, as their reality falls far short of their expectations. That is the sort of thing which can become exceptionally destabilising socially and politically. And has.