pourdeac
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Food wasn't the primary then either, it was one third (thus the 3 multiplier).Food is also no longer the primary expenditure in an average budget. Housing and child care are IIRC. That system is very dated and inadequate.
Regardless, so you believe poverty should be defined based on an average (which is moving further and further away from subsistence living), not by what is necessary to survive. Or to put it another way, you define what is necessary by how the average lives, regardless of how well off that is. That's part of the problem I have with they way we define it and then how we approach helping people. IMO that's also how you end up with people in poverty but possessing lots of middle american luxuries (which upsets people).
That modern way of defining poverty started at the inflection point of the above graph. The World Bank defines it completely differently, placing a lot of them into the Middle Class.