187,000 people escaped from extreme poverty yesterday

"I'd like to quote the founder and proprietor of Our World in Data, who said that the papers could have had the headline: '187,000 people escaped from extreme poverty yesterday,' every day for the last 30 years! But you never see that headline, and as a result, a billion people escaped from extreme poverty -- one of the most significant events in human history -- and no one knows about it."

~ Steven Pinker

"Wealth is created, not simply found."

~ Madsen Pirie, from his post 'Causes of wealth and poverty'