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I know it's been extremely suspicious of this extreme poverty metric, because anyone who earns a wage but can't afford sufficient food and shelter is "non-extre
by hgsgm 3y ago
I know it's been extremely suspicious of this extreme poverty metric, because anyone who earns a wage but can't afford sufficient food and shelter is "non-extreme poverty" , while subsistence farming is "extreme poverty".
It seems to play into the global capitalist scheme of luring people into debt servitude with a false promise of high wages in a distant city / country.
- Aunche 3y agoYou think researchers who dedicate their lives to measuring extreme poverty don't even account for a problem that you instantly thought about? > In all these statistics, the researchers are not only taking people’s monetary income into account, but also their non-monetary income and home production. One reason why this is important is because many poor people are small-scale farmers who produce their own food.
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoSeems about par for the brain trust here
- bllguo 3y agookay. pray tell how a definition of poverty that claims 93% of china, 94% of mexico, 40% of spain, etc. is poor is useful. we can see the damn data in front of us, so you can feign outrage all you want - they clearly did not account for the problem. it has nothing to do with competence. we can and have defined per-country poverty lines, which these people obviously know. this is a malicious effort to present a twisted narrative of western superiority.