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Re:Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed by kevmo on Friday September 21, 2018 @02:05AM (#18037485)
What about 500 years ago?
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Re:Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed by 07d046 on Friday September 21, 2018 @02:14AM (#18037516)
Almost everyone was extremely poor then too.

You can tell from the percentage of the labour force who worked on farms that most people couldn't have been wealthy, and the industrial revolution changed everything.

https://ourworldindata.org/employment-in-agriculture

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Re:Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed by singularity2001 on Friday September 21, 2018 @03:07AM (#18037726)
Interesting charts, thanks.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/agriculture-value-added-p...

Shocking that corn and cow producers in India are 90% less productive than in the US.

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Re:Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed by alexgmcm on Friday September 21, 2018 @02:30AM (#18037577)
Didn't living conditions actually worsen for a while after the industrial revolution though due to rapid urbanisation and slums and a lack of workers rights.

Being a peasant was awful too, mind.

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Re:Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed by IloveHN84 on Friday September 21, 2018 @02:19AM (#18037540)
Actually, from the little ice age around XVI-XVII centuries that everyone was poor, at least in Europe and Asia
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