> For the sake of the argument. Consider a planet inhabited exactly by two humans. They would be in extreme poverty by our standards (...) Not true. Our standa

> For the sake of the argument. Consider a planet inhabited exactly by two humans. They would be in extreme poverty by our standards (...) Not true. Our standards define poverty either as the inability to afford lower-tier living expenses, or as the inability to ensure an income higher than a certain quantille of the population's income distribution (typically around 60% of the median income ) Both interpretations of poverty imply that none of your hypothetical examples represent poverty.