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Some positivity for your day!
(lemmy.world)
Things have gotten better and progress has been made from times past, it just seems worse now because we have more access to information. We've come far, and have further to go!
Of course it's mostly going to be in Asia and Africa since that's where the largest concentration of people in extreme poverty was.
Less than 0.25% of the US lives in extreme poverty; even bringing it to zero won't make a large dent in the global numbers.
There's no shortage of poverty in Latin America and Africa. However, the states that outperform their peers tend to be the ones westerners hate. Bolivia, South Africa, Burkina Faso...