Global poverty rates were cut in half over 20 years due to globalization, but yeah, just because westerners lost all of the low skill manufacturing jobs, it all sucks. You realize the US is still one of the biggest manufacturers on the planet but it’s for higher end complex products? Not saying there aren’t problems in the west, but globalization helped billions of people.
I had the number of years wrong as I was relying on my terrible memory instead of looking it up before posting, that said, not sure where you are getting your numbers from since you didn’t post any links.
According to the World Bank global poverty was cut in half in 30 years, not 20 as I posted:
That’s from this link: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty
That’s the first sentence from this article by the UN (the people you claim say poverty is increasing)
Politifact says that the claim:
Is mostly true at this link: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/mar/23/gayle-smith/did-we-really-reduce-extreme-poverty-half-30-years/
If you look at the second graph on the wikipedia page on Extreme Poverty here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty it looks like the total number of people in poverty was around 1.6 billion around the year 2000, but by 2015 it appears to have dropped below 800 million.
So yeah, it’s obvious that there’s a lot of variations in the numbers but still looks like my initial claim was not completely without merit.