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California could ban Clear, which lets travelers pay to skip TSA lines
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And you're not cherry picking? I've been to developing countries. It's not cardboard shacks. Yeah they don't generally have central air and electricity cuts are common. But they have houses, mass transit, good food, bars, smartphones, etc.
Things have improved a lot over the last fifty years. If you want to complain that a bag of Cheetos is expensive and they have to buy Rosquillas de Quesito instead you're not going to find much sympathy among people actually trying to improve lives.
Also, I did provide a counter example. I didn't mention India just for giggles. It's got one of the largest populations that still score as poverty stricken in the global sense. That don't have running water, don't have access to transit, smart phones, healthcare, good jobs, electricity, or safe food.
Huge qol improvements in india https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXTZVKYYyig
I'm not really a fan of BI for hard info but I checked back in and it looks like they've basically eliminated extreme poverty.
This is the stuff I like to read about -
So yeah, I'm absolutely elated to read that.
Man... they use a metric of $2.57/day in 2023 dollars to define the level of extreme poverty? That's $938.05 a year. Just wow.
Yeah. When they say extreme poverty they mean it.