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I think these statistics are all BS. If you took away all of the game playing involved in defining poverty and then measured the total number of people in the w

by anm89 4y ago

I think these statistics are all BS. If you took away all of the game playing involved in defining poverty and then measured the total number of people in the world living in poverty after our massive population growth over the last decades, you will find that the sum of human misery due to poverty is by far the highest it has ever been and is only increasing. But this way a bunch of self righteous people like Gates and Pinkerton can play statistical games and say everything is great. No, it's great for them.

soared 4y ago
I’m not sure what this comment is saying? Poverty as a percentage of population has steadily declined globally, same with starvation, etc. 70 years ago 50% of the world lived in extreme poverty, today it’s 11%. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-living-in-extreme-poverty-cost-of-basic-needs?country=~OWID_WRL https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-livin... The population in 1950 was 2.5 billion, so 1.25 billion living in extreme poverty. Todays population is 7.6 billion, so 840 million living in extreme poverty. Undernourishment has the sametrend, data once 1991: https://images.fastcompany.net/image/upload/w_596,c_limit,q_auto:best,f_auto/wp-cms/uploads/2017/09/5-after-years-of-progress-worldwide-hunger-is-once-again.jpg https://images.fastcompany.net/image/upload/w_596,c_limit,q_...