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Re:What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day? by falcongod082 on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:51AM (#20901851)
Well, it's not nothing...but making the ridiculously poor slightly less poor isn't something I'd call an "amazing achievement" since it's stupid easy to make them not poor.
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Re:What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day? by jngreenlee on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:01AM (#20901883)
That's not true at scale. We're not talking share-shifting of dollars, but making a more anti-fragile system overall that lifts everyone.
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Re:What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day? by TaylorAlexander on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:25AM (#20901968)
I’m gonna need you to cite a source for that claim.
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Re:What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day? by pdonis on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:02AM (#20901888)
> it's stupid easy to make them not poor

Really? How so?

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Re:What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day? by jlawson on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:38AM (#20902011)
Which rich people do you think all that money came from exactly?

This is an absurd fixed-pie view of reality.

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Re:What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day? by luckylion on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:39AM (#20902015)
And you'll also need a set of policies to keep that going in perpetuity, otherwise the money is going to accumulate in a few hands again.
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Re:What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day? by username90 on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:57AM (#20902071)
The problem is that every country that is still very poor is also full of corruption, so we have already solved all the simple cases you talk about.
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