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 availab

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.