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bryanlarsen
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Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t...
"About 60%" means 71.8% in 1990 and 58.1% in 2013.
https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2018/8/30/the-moral-egregio...
whack
on Jan 29, 2019
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That is a significant amount of progress to make in 23 years. Hiding this data and calling the numbers "stagnant" is concerted misrepresentation on Hickel's part
joveian
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The 60% mentioned in the posted article excludes China, the numbers in the link do not.
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