Why are people on HN who are critical of articles so quick to tell everyone precisely the sentence at which they stopped reading an article? If anything, criticism from someone who stopped reading mid-stream should be taken less seriously than criticism from someone who managed to read the whole thing. Lots of worthwhile articles have foolish sentences in them.

This is beyond foolish and even with the worthwhile points in the article (I read it, "stopped reading was only a figure of speech) it renders it amateur and not serious.

And? Those two statements don't contradict each other.

How don't they contradict each other? They said one thing, the reality is another thing.

Earning $1 per day is a very low income yet it is still higher than earning $0.5 per day.

It is so low that any additional lower rating would be complete anarchy.

Indeed. The economists were presumably speaking relatively.