> I wonder how did they get into poverty in the first place. Human history is basically nothing but suffering and starvation. 80% of the population was living

> I wonder how did they get into poverty in the first place. Human history is basically nothing but suffering and starvation. 80% of the population was living in extreme poverty before the industrial revolution. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-population-between-different-poverty-thresholds-historical?country=~OWID_WRL https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-populatio...