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This shows you don’t know what extreme poverty is and how horrible it is.

What-about-ism is an elitist way to pretend to care yet do nothing.

Imagine it was your country and your project which eliminated extreme poverty. No doubt you would be bending over backwards to listen to someone who “read an article” on the other side of the world

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Accusing "what-about-ism" is itself a "what-about-ism".... You are using it to short-circuit valid thought-provoking criticism.

The criticisms against charity and progress seem to be politically motivated. Human suffering can be used as a commodity to influence elections or promote specific ideologies. If you start measuring the suffering and show progress, you take away their commodity and thus become a threat. I.e. "how dare you say you're improving? There's still plenty of suffering going on". This position is a shift from continuous scale to simple binary thinking. At which point, anyone without new clothes and an air conditioned SUV is "poor".

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