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5 days agoOmg, this. The part time legal thing is happening to me right now.
I’m building a small app for a (multimillion dollar) company. Nothing major. I tell the project manager: “hey, you guys need a EULA to publish in the app store. You can use the std apple one or write your own. Tell me what you want to do.”
This woman comes back to me with: “what do you think we should do?”
Like b#%^!, I don’t know! Why would you want me to tell you how define the legal relationship between you and your customers?
After some prodding, she forwards the request to legal and sends back a DRAFT EULA asks: “Can you review this?”
NO. I cannot review legal documents. I’m horrendously under qualified for that!!!
/end rant
It is meaningful.
I agree, a huge drop in people making less than $5 a day, does not equal a huge drop in people with guaranteed access to medicine food, etc.
However, it does mean that a ton of people now have at least 5 more dollars. Not a life changing amount, but it is an incremental improvement.
And realistically, that’s how we’re going to complex social problems like global poverty. With incremental improvements.
Note that the graph doesn’t say which policies are causing the drop. Only that a drop is happening. It is possible (in fact likely) that some policies are making things worse (IMF restructuring prioritizing private creditors over local people) and other policies are making things better (PEPFAR)
The graph also shows that while the current mix of policies correlates with huge drops in extreme poverty, it has barely made a dent in regular poverty (< $30/day). This shows that if our goal is to get rid of all poverty, the current policy mix is not doing that.
Just because you can’t derive any use from the graph, doesn’t mean it’s useless.
This is an ad hominem attack. If you want to argue that the data is wrong. Do that, don’t vaguely wave towards the evil boogeyman.