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And yet, there are more people living in poverty than the entire global population in 1950.
by banads 6y ago
And yet, there are more people living in poverty than the entire global population in 1950.
- chii 6y agothere are a lot more people now than in the 1950's too. As a proportion, is the poverty rate higher today than before? Are the currently poor today better off than the same relative level of poor in the 1950s?
- banads 6y agoThe number of people living in poverty has increased since 1950, while the rate of people living in poverty has decreased. If we're too busy patting ourselves on the back about the latter, we become blind to the existential threat posed by the former in the face of a global technological revolution which is making tools of mass destruction available better, faster, and cheaper at exponential rates.