On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Oct 19, 2013, at 12:24 AM, raghu wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The past three decades has seen an increase in world population of more >> than two billion. Most of those are impoverished. More people than ever >> before live in poverty. >> > > Are you sure about this, or is this just your ideological prejudice > talking? > > Here's a report that says you have no idea what you are talking about: > > http://siteresources.worldbank.org/JAPANINJAPANESEEXT/Resources/515497-1201490097949/080827_The_Developing_World_is_Poorer_than_we_Thought.pdf > ------------------------snip > For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the > population > of the developing world, lived below our international line of $1.25 a day > in 2005 > prices. > > > Your "international line" of $1.25 a day is not deep poverty? Try living > on twice as much! > As for the "poverty-reducing" effect of your "neoliberal ascendancy"--ask > a Greek or Spanish worker, or a Russian pensioner (but how many even > survived)? > What the fuck does that have to do with whether or not there has been a decline in world poverty over the last 3 decades? > There has been poverty reduction, of course--in China. A state-capitalist > system completely opposed to any form of liberalism. > I guess we are making some progress. First it was, "there was no decrease in world poverty. There was an INCREASE!!". Now it is "yes, there was a decline in poverty, but only in China, which doesn't count because (random ideological excuse)." -raghu.
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