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boring and depressing if you have any self-awareness. yet India announced they eliminated all poverty recently. I've visited in the last months. It's still the dystopia that it always was.

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prawn 14 days ago | parent [-]

I walked into a Mumbai slum 20+ years ago and recently checked on Streetview and other 360 image spots to see how it compared. Still there. How do those get categorise with regard to poverty? Or is/was the poverty-poverty the people sleeping in/around train stations?

	▲	ZeroTalent 13 days ago \| parent [-]
		The criteria for defining extreme poverty are not being adjusted properly. For example, Grab/Uber rickshaw/tuk-tuk drivers in India may technically earn over $10 a day, but many of them remain homeless because the price of food and rent has risen, and they often support a lot of their family members who have no jobs. They often sleep on their rickshaws and work more than 20 hours a day, seven days a week, relying on excessive amounts of caffeine and other substances to keep going. Many of them sleep on their motorcycles or near them on the sidewalk.