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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
GGG you do understand that there is a big difference between saying the world isn’t better than it ever has been and getting better for 95% of the population and saying that the world hasn’t gotten better at all in any areas, right?
Even the data you’ve provided doesn’t support the 95% figure.
Why are you challenging that 400 million isn’t 5% of 8 billion? How is 5% of 1982’s population relevant to determining whether or not life is getting better for all but 5% of 2023’s poplulation?
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What year is your comparison year. I can’t really prove you are wrong until you pick the year we are comparing to. Also in general we don’t have reliable post Covid data so if you want to speculate there I would say we don’t have the data. So which year was better than 2019 for 6% of people?
But the first chart does support the world getting better for most people as if you look at that chart and then you imagine the bins of poverty being smaller each with their own line you can see the trend lines working. Now eventually they will flatten as shown by how much faster we are moving the bottom out of poverty. But that chart shows at least 90% of the world is better off since 1980. And that’s withou considering population has doubled. So the % of people demonstrated to be better off than in 1980 is around 93/94%.
So it’s time for you to show some work or at least pick a year.
Also if people would like to move on here I can just stop posting as well.