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When it comes to the traditional problems of poverty such as malnourishment, freezing in the winter, lack of cloths or shoes, and so on, many countries have don
by nitwit005 9y ago
When it comes to the traditional problems of poverty such as malnourishment, freezing in the winter, lack of cloths or shoes, and so on, many countries have done quite well. Even fairly poor countries have had success there.
The complaints coming out of the US are more about inequality than poverty, although people confuse the two issues (sometimes intentionally).
- lifeisstillgood 9y agowell, in the UK a hundred years ago our cities hid poverty of the kind that is rare in modern world (war zones and the like). Rowntrees reports were transformative in understanding of same - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty,_A_Study_of_Town_Life https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty,_A_Study_of_Town_Lif... Also it's worth noting that modern notions of poverty are relative - with the "poverty line" often being drawn as some % of median income. Of course this is discussing inequality of wealth - which is what we usually mean, and is the pillar around which the other inequalities get talked about (unequal opportunity due to race, religion, education gender etc)
- dragonwriter 9y ago> The complaints coming out of the US are more about inequality than poverty, although people confuse the two issues (sometimes intentionally). They aren't distinct; poverty is always in relation to a set of standards, and there are very good reasons to looking to the contemporary context for the most applicable standards.
- nitwit005 9y agoIf you set an income standard, sure, it's relative, but you aren't "relatively" starving, or "relatively" infected with parasites because you have no shoes. Those are real problems that have nothing to do with how society choses to view innequality.