[YZF]

How about this trend? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...

There is growth, it might not be where you are, or it might be superimposed with other effects for you.

[amavect]

That graph ends in 2015. The 2025 graph flattens. Looks like we can explain this trend by the economic development of East Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_population_living_i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty

[smallmancontrov]

Selfishness is a sin for me but a virtue for billionaires lobbying away the last shreds of tax they are embarrassed to pay? I see how it is.