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This is why efforts at alleviating poverty have not improved actual poverty...
by dnautics 5y ago
This is why efforts at alleviating poverty have not improved actual poverty...
- umvi 5y agoPoverty is a special case though because it's relative. You could be a millionaire with a yacht on earth but be below the poverty line if the middle and upper classes live in space stations or on other planets with higher standards of living. An impoverished person in the US is rich compared to an impoverished person in India or Africa.
- dnautics 5y agoThat doesn't make my statement any less true.
- Too 5y agoSource? According to the book Factfulnes by Hans Rosling, poverty has decreased significantly the past decades. https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Better/dp/1250107814 https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Bett...