Extreme poverty isn’t natural, it’s created — Jason Hickel
▻https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2021/3/28/extreme-poverty-isnt-natural-it-is-created
Over the past few years, this graph has become a sensation. Developed by Our World In Data and promoted widely by Bill Gates and Steven Pinker, the graph gives the impression that virtually all of humanity was in “extreme poverty” as of 1820 (...)
There’s only one problem: the graph’s long-term trend is empirically baseless.
