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"dramatic reductions in global poverty", lmfao. Quote me wrong.
by mellow 18y ago
"dramatic reductions in global poverty", lmfao. Quote me wrong.
- jraines 18y agohttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_be... Check out the movement in the graph starting around 7:40. A huge portion of East Asia and South Asia (where a large part of the world's population lives) experienced a large gain. (We might not consider a move from $1/day to $10/day significant, but it is) As another commenter pointed out, this isn't something we can attribute to some "U.S. generation", but there it is.
- mellow 18y agoWealth is relative. Since the Baby Boomers' DoB, many people have got wealthier, many more have got poorer. This is not coincidental.
- hugh 18y agoWealth is absolute. Since the Baby Boomers' DoB, many people have got wealthier, very few have got poorer.
- Retric 18y agoOutsourcing our manufacturing base has reduced the inflation adjusted income of a lot of people.
- hugh 18y agoI'm talking in a worldwide context, not a US one.
- mellow 18y ago'Wealth', as in how many Yankee dollars you have is relative. I understand all the arguments about absolute wealth, and it is true that my parents (and I) are absolutely wealthier than 60 years ago. Now, here this: millions of people are starving to death every year. Starving from lack off food, water, ideas and hope. And Obama isn't gonna change it one bit.
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoInteresting how you roped Obama into the discussion, despite it being completely irrelevant. And it's true that millions of people are starving every year, dying of preventable diseases, etc. But those things correlate strongly with extreme poverty, and the number of people in extreme poverty has dropped dramatically over the last 25 years and continues to drop.
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoI'm speaking of reductions in extreme global poverty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty#Measuring_poverty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty#Measuring_poverty
- mellow 18y agoInteresting. 'About 1/2 of the human population suffers from poverty.' Well, let them die so everyone can be wealthy. Can you see the flaw in my argument?