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World population living in extreme poverty, 1820-2015

by mydpy on 10/24/16, 1:55 AM with 3 comments

• by dbg31415 on 10/24/16, 3:05 AM

  So, yes, we have done a good job of combating "extreme poverty" -- the chart shows a marvelous decrease in that. And that's a good thing.

  Feel good! https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...

  But we've also done a horrible job of combating wealth inequality. The top 1% get 30%, the top 20% get 80%... blah blah, you should have voted for Bernie.

  Feel meh! http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5162e54469bedd0b220...

  So yeah, hooray... when you describe "extreme poverty" as like $1.90 a day the chart looks pretty good. Now... what if you were to define it as like making less than $10k / year... still feel warm and fuzzy?