>without a determined effort to end poverty around the world, there is always to be a limitless source of desperate people. Is this necessarily the case? Avera

>without a determined effort to end poverty around the world, there is always to be a limitless source of desperate people. Is this necessarily the case? Average global wages have been increasing steadily, especially in developing countries, so if the current trajectory continues then eventually a stage will be reached where everyone has a "first world" income, even if that takes another hundred years.