For me, it comes off as tremendously callous. Many billions of people still face issues of food, health, safety, security that even poor Americans/Europeans trivially avoid. But, "The real question is what do we do with the richest half billion?"
So I can't complain that the train is late because somewhere in the world other people don't even have trains?
I think you missed the point I was trying to make.
My point was simply that it's a not very controversial that the living conditions around the world are getting better, thats great.
But it does not mean that it's getting better for everyone and especially in the developed countries it's actually going the other way which is relevant to discuss as this might mean that things can't continue getting better.
Saying it's trivial that the developing world is improving could be interpreted as the developing world lacking importance in comparison to the developed world.
Did you mean it was easy to achieve (not that I would agree with that either).
I was saying the fact that the living conditions are increasing in the developing world (which is a good thing) is a trivial fact. I.e. it's true and not really disputed.
What is more disputed is that it's also increasing for the developed world.
