You're completely missing the point. 200 years ago the majority of people were illiterate and uneducated, had no electricity or indoor plumbing, no telecommunications, food insecurity tied to local conditions, and on and on. Housing was a hovel or a few square meters in a shared dorm or family house. In much of the world, freezing to death and having enough food to survive the winter was an annual concern.
Today, the majority are literate and at least somewhat educated, have electricity and usually indoor plumbing, have telecommunications that communicate with at least half the world instantly, and today food insecurity mostly depends on market manipulation and international shenanigans rather than acts of god. Except for remote tribes that aren't integrated into modern society, across the world the poor are much better off than they were 200 years ago.
Today, the majority are literate and at least somewhat educated, have electricity and usually indoor plumbing, have telecommunications that communicate with at least half the world instantly, and today food insecurity mostly depends on market manipulation and international shenanigans rather than acts of god. Except for remote tribes that aren't integrated into modern society, across the world the poor are much better off than they were 200 years ago.