Poverty is a special case though because it's relative. You could be a millionaire with a yacht on earth but be below the poverty line if the middle and upper classes live in space stations or on other planets with higher standards of living.

An impoverished person in the US is rich compared to an impoverished person in India or Africa.

That doesn't make my statement any less true.

Source? According to the book Factfulnes by Hans Rosling, poverty has decreased significantly the past decades.

https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Bett...