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> poverty is declining world wide

That depends on how you measure it.




The worst way to measure it is inequality. How the top person is doing relative to the bottom person isn't important. How the bottom person is doing now compared to the bottom person 100 years ago is.


Yeah, keep changing the measure until Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos etc are below poverty line.




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