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then just about any solution How can you make such a claim, when you look at the state of many regions/countries in the world?

• amelius 4y ago
  11.6% of Americans live in poverty.
  • robocat 4y ago
    Is that the World Bank numbers? They think poverty rate was: Sri Lanka 4.1% 2016 Kazakhstan 4.3% 2018 Morocco 4.8% 2013 Belarus 5% 2019 Fuck the World Bank numbers. I’ve been to Sri Lanka and poverty is real over there. Oh, and “According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the official 2017 poverty rate in the U.S. was 12.3%. However, other sources placed it as high as 17.8%. [snip] The 2021 poverty threshold in the United States is $26,246 for a family of four”. So the poverty figures are relative to the wealth of the country? That makes the numbers meaningless to compare (since there is no standard cutoff - just pick a number that gives you a poverty rate of x%).
    • robocat 4y ago
      An article that discusses this point better: https://fee.org/articles/the-poorest-20-of-americans-are-richer-than-most-nations-of-europe/ https://fee.org/articles/the-poorest-20-of-americans-are-ric...
  • badpun 4y ago
    35 million people in the US live in poverty? That's total nonsense coming from the fictional "poverty line". If we stick to absolutes and define poverty as something as for example "not being able to house, feed, warm, clean or clothe oneself" (so basically - not being able to fill one of the basic human needs, due to insufficent funds) then there's almost no poverty.