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		Isinlor on Dec 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We've Just Had the Best Decade in Human History You should look at the data and not invent some silly comparisons to error rates. Poverty is declining both in absolute and relative terms. There is less poor people now than there was 10 years ago. https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

mpax on Dec 29, 2019 [–]

Those data on poverty are a joke! Read for example: https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/4/27/200-years-to-end-...

It's basically the World Bank covering its ass for its own spectacular failure.

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