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The description misleads already in the second paragraph: "We all notice when the poor get poorer: when there are more rough sleepers and food bank queues start
by eterevsky 3y ago
The description misleads already in the second paragraph: "We all notice when the poor get poorer: when there are more rough sleepers and food bank queues start to grow."
This is just not true: the share and absolute number of poor people has been decreasing for a long time. See https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief.
Socialist/communist countries that tried to limit the ability of people to get rich made all of their citizens poor.