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It never were. Literally all poverty lifting under capitalism is the function of drastically increasing production and technical progress (and of course imperialism) and yet nearly all fruits of those had been redistributed to ruling classes. In other word it was never at any point purposeful, except maybe when they did concession in fear of workers power and that was forced.
Robert Owen all those years ago wondered where all this wealth go if the work of 100000 is done by 1000 and those 1000 live even worse than those 100000 before.
My point was that at one point the adults in the room would show you the chart of the percentage of population living on under $1.5 a day (the poverty line decided by IMF) over time and gaslight you into believing that conditions were improving but they don't even try to do that anymore.
Yeah the gaslighting was all that ever was about it.