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I know it doesn't work like that but I think it's mildly interesting
- 57% of Argentina population is 25MM people
- 12% of USA pop (amount who live in poverty) is 38MM people
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Yeah, it doesn’t matter that the U.S. has more people living in poverty as what matters is the relative amount of the total population.
I know you know, but thought I’d say it just in case someone else didn’t get why you said “it doesn’t work this way”
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You're right from a hard-statistical point of view, but from a casual, layman conversation I think it is, as I said, mildly interesting.
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It definitely is interesting :)
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Why is that interesting?
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Because the US has several million more people living below a certain level of income, experiencing a daily misery but it's somewhat excusable because the ratio is smaller.
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I dont know the metrics, but I assume poverty means different things in each country. I would think poverty in a second world country means that people are at a state where they have a hard time getting enough food.
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I would grant that even if the metrics were measured largely the same way you could argue or even observe that experience would be meaningfully different in some ways.
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why is anything interesting? It just is.
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The issue is a lot harder to ignore when the person to your right and the person to your left is starving to death.
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Things got bad the last few years, but the hunger index is still only 6.4.
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