SFS Minute 945: Poverty

These are difficult times all around. We are at war again. There are sleeper cells. They tell us they are going to attack in the middle of the night. Gas prices are soaring. We could be in another recession. It's just a hard time, isn't it? So I thought that this week, I would take a step back, look at things from a 30,000-foot level, and give us a sense of the macro. It's actually pretty encouraging. I'll share why in just a second. In the last three decades, extreme poverty has gone down by as much as 90%. Over the last several decades, hundreds of millions of people have moved out of extreme poverty and into a life where they are actually having the bare necessities. It's not a life of luxury, but at least they have the bare necessities. The lesson is hopeful. Human progress often happens gradually, but the results do accumulate over time, and the world is getting better.