someonekilljeffbezos:

funnyfoxes55:

someonekilljeffbezos:

Also how are you gonna say “the UN sets the bar at $1.25 a day” and not think “hmmmm that’s a bit uh extremely low”

Does the UN even try to justify it or did they slap it on the page? Someone was telling me about how there is different values of currency in the world and therefore its good, but i was like mm no thats not how it works sharon. Not quite.

A libertarian economist thought it up to make calculating global poverty “easier”, AKA easier to manipulate and easier to make things look significantly better than they actually are.