It seems we often look at some statistics the wrong way. For example, it's common among the optimists among us to brag about the improvement in living standards by citing the reduction in the percentage of people in poverty. But I think it would be more impressive to look at it the other way.
So I asked ChatGpt to compare the number of humans above the poverty line in 1900 with the number in 2020. I can't guarantee the accuracy of the numbers but what it gave me (using World Book numbers of "extreme poverty") was 150 million in 1900 and 7.1 billion in 2020.
That's a whole lot of people who might be happy.
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