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In the NYT today, Max Roser says we need a new poverty line at $30/day.

I agree. I think we should also have poverty lines at $100, $300, and $1000/day.

More than 99.9% of the world lives on less than $1000/day. We should seek to reduce that number as far as possible.

Absolutely serious about this.

Founder, The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org). I write about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Former tech founder.

We are all poor: https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/the-plight-of-the-poor

Source for income distribution stats: https://wid.world/income-comparator/

99% of the world lives on less than $380/day
99.9% on less than $1400/day
99.99% on less than $5400/day

[corrected from previous, deleted thread with wrong numbers that I misread from the chart]

Not so surprised, but I’m part of the 99% earning less than 380 a day. And far from poor in all sorts of ways. After all my older daughter is at a medical school in Japan (so not cheap). Not bad?