
Episode 297: What Happened to Poverty?
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What's the Dollar 90?
In the 1800s, 90% of the world lived in extreme poverty; today it's 8%. This is despite 10 times as many people on the planet. What we have now is tenable but what we will have in a year is untenable,. We will not have enough food to go around," he says. "People keep repeating this and I know some pretty intelligent people who keep repeating this"
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