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Our World in Data[edit]
That link honestly belongs in the clogosphere. The problem is that it defines "poverty" as making less than $2.15 a day, as if that is a reasonable amount to live on. Under that definition, a country like Argentina has essentially a 0% poverty rate, which is ridiculous. Plutocow (talk) 20:03, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
- poverty is relative. some extreme or abject poverty definitions are a lot lower than $2.15. one should look at poverty within the context of the specific nations for nation specific poverty rates. argentina probably has zero poverty by such definitions of extreme poverty. challenges for its impoverished are probably less extreme than those faced by the impoverished in gaza, but that doesnt help them none. poverty still exists even if its not of the most extreme variety. it doesnt make sense to compare such places to literally some of the worst poverty on this planet unless they are falling to comparable levels.
- the wigo is dumb not because it has a particular metric of poverty but because while china did drastically reduce its extreme poverty rate while the the rest of the world did also, its an inane refutation of an inane claim seemingly in response to someones arguments elsewhere on the internet no one really needs to hear about. its doesnt even merit a clog. AMassiveGay (talk) 16:35, 28 July 2024 (UTC)