It really depends on the definition of poverty. I pretty much took the argument you are making for granted until recently. I mean, how can we argue against rais

It really depends on the definition of poverty. I pretty much took the argument you are making for granted until recently. I mean, how can we argue against raising people out of poverty, right? But recently I watched this interview with Paul Kingsnorth and he makes a compelling case for why these numbers don't tell the whole story. I am linking to the middle of the interview more or less this is mentioned but the whole interview is quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojZjl8M921U&t=2534s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojZjl8M921U&t=2534s