Here's a pretty convincing TED talk which makes the point that global poverty has indeed significantly gone down in recent history, especially among developing

Here's a pretty convincing TED talk which makes the point that global poverty has indeed significantly gone down in recent history, especially among developing countries: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y... It was posted here about 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373041 I don't think we should look at poverty as a solved problem, but I think it would be overly cynical to not acknowledge how much the "system" has done for the poor.