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I like the bureaucratic way you put this like it means anything. Especially since poverty is arbitrarily defined.
by vagrantJin 6y ago
I like the bureaucratic way you put this like it means anything. Especially since poverty is arbitrarily defined.
- elliekelly 6y agoIf we define the federal poverty threshold as having an annual income of less than $1 poverty metrics will improve drastically. Heck, we might even be able to solve it!
- tharne 6y agoIt seems like the left is already doing that, just in the opposite direction. Poverty has continued to decrease in the U.S. so we longer talk about it much, instead we focus on "income inequality" because it serves a particular political philosophy. If "income inequality" is a major issue regardless of how well people are doing, then there will always be a reason to intervene in the economy and redistribute wealth, since any society with any sort of market economy will always see an uneven distribution of wealth.