Can't see the original picture. Anyway, the best metric for poverty would be GDP/PPP adjusted for both inflation and GINI. I can imagine the poverty rate declining because of the meteoric rise of China, but since China has become a very unequal society, the decline in poverty has largely stopped.

This is clear proof that Capitalism is lifting more people out of poverty and transitioning to lives of luxury. Millions of new middle class in Asia have been created all due to the success of Capitalism.

What about relative poverty?

Except it isn't. If you read any novel in the mid to late 1800's you'd discover that 10,000 GBP was what made somebody the richest people in existence in a time when there was much greater inequality than today. That is nothing. The 2 dollar poverty rate is the metric for today's absolute poverty. 

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2. Yes, it explicitly says it is adjusted for inflation and PPP. 

Why should it matter as long as there is social mobility? 

And South America, the Middle East, and Africa will be next (in that order.) India too, if they can ditch their bureaucracy. 

As for the GINI, this is a measurement of absolute poverty. I am still wondering why relative poverty matters? Especially when Western societies have a lot of social mobility. 

That's better, both images are more or less synced. Even plato of 1930-40s is here.

The bottomline is poverty has been greately reduced (doh!) as energy flow per capita almost showed geometrical progression growth post-war, even the fact that inequality has increased greatly since that time worldwide didn't compromise that. But the future looks rather dim.

I think we need a better standard than 2 dollars a day. Its relative to the cost of living by area. This is absolute poverty. Im not satisfied. I think the human race can do better. I really think the monetary system is botched and I think we have a long way to go. My reality is a world where rises in the cost of living outpace earnings. I see people who work really really hard for their families struggle year after year to keep up with things like health care costs. I am a person who believes that hard work should be rewarded financially but I know that is unpopular.

Western countries social mobility is much lower then most people suspect. Bureaucracy isn't the problem, the problem is a severe lack of redistribution and a lack of investment in poorer areas.