I recently spent 2 months in a shipyard. IMO, working in a shipyard is comparable to working in a factory. Yes, a lot of the workers seemed poor, but they wer

I recently spent 2 months in a shipyard. IMO, working in a shipyard is comparable to working in a factory. Yes, a lot of the workers seemed poor, but they were nowhere near living in the same conditions as the poor 50 or 100 years ago. If you keep the definition of poverty a percentage, then by definition you will always have poverty. If you decide if someone is in poverty based off of living conditions, than it's gone down drastically in my opinion. My opinion is limited, to get a better one, you'll have to ask someone who's been alive for 150+ years.