Blatant goalpost shifting. Conversation was about how representative the anecdotes were to the documented reality of the rate of small business failures. Now, you’re discussing global poverty.
But even if we go with your scrambling goalposts, small business start rates have declined markedly over the past 50 years at the noted high rate of failure:
The very next video Youtube recommended did a great job of critiquing that video, in my opinion, digging deeper into the statistics and showing how the 1% are skewing those statistics significantly and hiding declines for poor people, as well as other stats such as mental illness, things are getting much worse, especially in richer countries, and those stats are being ignored by people trying to push that the world is only getting better and better over time.
