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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Capitalist apologists: see how we reduced world poverty? /s

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure if this is a joke because if you exclude China from the data, world poverty has actually gotten worse in the last 40 years. They are singlehandedly dragging that world average upwards.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Good context. That's why I added the /s