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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

The extreme poverty one is laughable especially when criteria to define extreme poverty is ridiculous. Extreme poverty in places where you earn less than $1.90 but can still have subsistence farming and community doesn't make sense - also if living in San Francisco and earning $2/day isn't extreme poverty... I don't know what is.

Poverty shouldn't be tied to capital but to standards of living - that would be a completely different story.