>>Stress and mental illness.

Even if that is true. I'd rather be stressed and be wealthy than be poor and forced to make a million sacrifices a day to just merely survive.

And many subsistence fishermen were able to feed their kids a healthy diet, until commercial fishing came along.

Capitalism is pulling people out of poverty, but it is also destroying natural ecosystems. Is the reduction in poverty sustainable, or will it come back when the resources are gone?

Just wondering how to communist and socialist get food?

They pull metrics tons of food out of thin air?

Have you actually been to any of these "poor" countries and spent any time with the "poor" people who live in them?

Maybe you should try exploring some of the rest of the world before assuming you know what's best for it.

Overall, things are getting better for sure, but it's going in a trajectory that will settle into a shitty local minimum where poor people survive but are stuck with low quality of life. Getting people out of extreme poverty in the world is high priority, and we've been doing a pretty good job at that, as your graph shows. But there's a big rut after that that we need to work on removing too.

> it's going in a trajectory that will settle into a shitty local minimum

It's very hard to find evidence to support this point of view. You might hypothesize some future change in trajectory sure. But looking at the current trajectory? Pretty hard.

Based on the rut that most poor people in developed countries are stuck in.