☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days agoHas extreme poverty really plunged since the 1980s?jasonhickel.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
arrow-up131arrow-down1external-linkHas extreme poverty really plunged since the 1980s?jasonhickel.substack.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareSuperZutsuki [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoGlobally, yeah, but not in the US. I drive for work and see so much abject poverty everywhere. Urban, suburban, rural: it doesn’t matter. There are people just barely scraping by and every shock to the barely existent system socially murders more.
minus-squareLeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days ago Globally, yeah Pretty sure it’s just China
minus-squareSuperZutsuki [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 days agoYeah, but they can’t just talk about facts without spinning it to look good for the west. “World that is majority capitalist results in lower extreme poverty” Ah, much better
Globally, yeah, but not in the US. I drive for work
and see so much abject poverty everywhere. Urban, suburban, rural: it doesn’t matter. There are people just barely scraping by and every shock to the barely existent system socially murders more.
Pretty sure it’s just China
Yeah, but they can’t just talk about facts without spinning it to look good for the west.
“World that is majority capitalist results in lower extreme poverty”
Ah, much better