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We focus on the negative, instead of the positive. When I was born, HIV was a death sentence and pretty quick. Today it is something you live with, which when

We focus on the negative, instead of the positive. When I was born, HIV was a death sentence and pretty quick. Today it is something you live with, which when treated correctly can't even be detected, and a vaccine is being tested. During my childhood it cost money for every minute you were on the phone, and we didn't have an internet connection at home. The best, newest information on many topics I had access to was a physical encyclopedia. Today we have driven the cost of global video calls down to zero. Between 1990 and 2015 we added a billion people and cut the number of those living in extreme poverty down by half. Of course this being a positive thing, nobody much noticed.

JasonCannon 5y ago
>Between 1990 and 2015 we added a billion people and cut the number of those living in extreme poverty down by half. Ehhhhhh. This isn't really that close to truth. These claims are based off of something called the International Poverty Line. This is the poverty line of the poorest country in Earth. In 1990 it was surviving off of $1/day. In 2015 it was survivng off of $1.90/day. There are not many places in the world people can survive on $1.90/day. I don't care what the IPL says, you are still in extreme poverty if you can only scrounge up $2/day. Many experts argue that the real poverty line should be $5-$15 dollars a day in order to meet peoples basic survival needs. Besides, most of those gains made against poverty were made in China. The reality is, while people have nicer things the poor are still getting poorer. While more people are getting out of the International Poverty Line, a disgusting amount of people continue to live in poverty. And the third world's continued exploitation by liberal developed countries (not at all claiming the illiberal countries are doing better, just the Liberalism is the prevailing ideology in the world) is a huge cause of the issue.

JasonCannon 5y ago

>Between 1990 and 2015 we added a billion people and cut the number of those living in extreme poverty down by half. Ehhhhhh. This isn't really that close to truth. These claims are based off of something called the International Poverty Line. This is the poverty line of the poorest country in Earth. In 1990 it was surviving off of $1/day. In 2015 it was survivng off of $1.90/day. There are not many places in the world people can survive on $1.90/day. I don't care what the IPL says, you are still in extreme poverty if you can only scrounge up $2/day. Many experts argue that the real poverty line should be $5-$15 dollars a day in order to meet peoples basic survival needs. Besides, most of those gains made against poverty were made in China. The reality is, while people have nicer things the poor are still getting poorer. While more people are getting out of the International Poverty Line, a disgusting amount of people continue to live in poverty. And the third world's continued exploitation by liberal developed countries (not at all claiming the illiberal countries are doing better, just the Liberalism is the prevailing ideology in the world) is a huge cause of the issue.