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[HDThoreaun]

What statistics? All the stats I've seen are that there has never been less poverty in the world.

[bugglebeetle → HDThoreaun]

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:

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56945

So yes, all signs point to it actually being more difficult for small businesses to succeed.

[HDThoreaun → bugglebeetle]

What was the failure rate of small businesses in the past? I think it’s higher than 50%, looking forward to being proven wrong.

[bugglebeetle → HDThoreaun]

Secondary references to the SBA say they’ve been consistent since the 90s.

[HDThoreaun → bugglebeetle]

Thanks for the numbers. I do always enjoy learning something new

[andrekandre → HDThoreaun]

  >  All the stats I've seen are that there has never been less poverty in the world.

i wonder what happens to those stats if you take china out of that picture? do things look just as good?

[winphone1974 → HDThoreaun]

Many of the failures in the west are far above what global statistics define as poverty, so this doesn't make much sense

[HDThoreaun → winphone1974]

Do you have any statistics saying that the west is poorer than it used to be?

[brnaftr361 → HDThoreaun]

Can you transmute qualitative data into quantitative data and reliably measure it?