poverty: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/poverty/ Everyone on the record about poverty: 5 verbatim quotes from 2 people, December 2019 to January 2024, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:09 +0000 Bill Gurley: Gurley argues Deng Xiaoping brought 500 million people out of poverty through capitalism, more th https://minutesof.com/q/c329b652-6d91-4ff3-af2a-6d587ac14427/ https://minutesof.com/q/c329b652-6d91-4ff3-af2a-6d587ac14427/ “No other human being, not not the most no, no, you know, not Mother Teresa, not like no altruist, no socialist has come anywhere close to this number that was done merely by unleashing the human potential that was latent inside of China by allowing for idea sharing and commerce” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:05:50 +0000 poverty Bill Gurley: Gurley argues Deng Xiaoping brought 500 million people out of poverty through capitalism, more th https://minutesof.com/q/ec27e8c3-9042-4449-984e-0ab902fca18e/ https://minutesof.com/q/ec27e8c3-9042-4449-984e-0ab902fca18e/ “Ding Xiaoping, who brought capitalism to China and brought 500,000,000, 500,000,000 people out of poverty.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:05:50 +0000 poverty Stanley Druckenmiller: Let's just take poverty in The United States. It was 26% a few decades ago. It was 16% https://minutesof.com/q/210dfc69-b305-42f4-b9cd-7d76ef71ed16/ https://minutesof.com/q/210dfc69-b305-42f4-b9cd-7d76ef71ed16/ “Let's just take poverty in The United States. It was 26% a few decades ago. It was 16% in the financial crisis, and it's 13% now. It's at an all time low.” — Stanley Druckenmiller, Bloomberg Television Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:44:41 +0000 poverty Stanley Druckenmiller: Druckenmiller argues that for every billionaire created, 400,000 people exited extreme https://minutesof.com/q/34e9616a-d454-4673-904e-a0acb8516308/ https://minutesof.com/q/34e9616a-d454-4673-904e-a0acb8516308/ “And with regard to all this other talk about billionaires and so forth. So during that same period, you've created 2,500 billionaires, but you've brought a billion people out of poverty.” — Stanley Druckenmiller, Bloomberg Television Thu, 19 Dec 2019 02:48:34 +0000 poverty Stanley Druckenmiller: So 1,000,000,000 people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the last twenty year https://minutesof.com/q/1c26dbd2-bdf2-4937-a590-b8084fb716b6/ https://minutesof.com/q/1c26dbd2-bdf2-4937-a590-b8084fb716b6/ “So 1,000,000,000 people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the last twenty years. Why? Because obviously India and China adopted a free market model.” — Stanley Druckenmiller, Bloomberg Television Thu, 19 Dec 2019 02:48:34 +0000 poverty