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The rich get richer and the poor only get poorer. It's the principle as old as the bible, and the Vimes part simply puts it into very accessible terms that ever

• kbutler 7y ago
  > the poor only get poorer This is demonstrably, dramatically false. "The headline could be "The number of people in extreme poverty fell by 130,000 since yesterday” and they wouldn’t have this headline once, but every single day since 1990, since, on average, there were 130,000 people fewer in extreme poverty every day." https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit... Both the quality and duration of life for "the poor" have increased dramatically over the last decades and centuries. https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy-globally https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy-globally For a "real-time" visualization, see https://worldpoverty.io/index.html https://worldpoverty.io/index.html We aren't doing as well as we'd like to be, but the world is making dramatic progress.