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"Akshually, poor people are cheating on taxes and are way richer than you'd think".

• notch656c 4y ago
  Not necessarily poor people, but something like half of the world's workforce is "informal." Not formally recorded. The on-the-books view is way different than the total view.
• tetromino_ 4y ago
  Actually, in NYC it's not just poor people who are cheating on taxes. Tax fraud here can get pretty wild.
• woodruffw 4y ago
  This isn't a kind or charitable way to respond. The GP isn't making any sort of moralizing claim about "cheating" or the city's underclasses being "way richer" than measured.
  • johnchristopher 4y ago
    Went straight from "if you're poor and desperate [..] there are many ways to "live" that, while not particularly desirable to most people, are certainly available" to "I have a friend "whose family know how to work off the books and avoid the IRS [..] bought a building in Brooklyn for a low million dollar figure [..]. But their household was probably below the "living" wage, from the point of view of this data set, for the past 25 years." That's a sleight of hand. "But look, I know some poor people who cheat !". Yeah, a minority cheats. Now if someone can come up and say there are way less poor people than we think in NY and back it up it'd be another story.
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