> All you've done is raise the floor That seems like no small benefit. Not to mention the knock-on effects of improving their mental health. I suspect that th

> All you've done is raise the floor That seems like no small benefit. Not to mention the knock-on effects of improving their mental health. I suspect that the rich have as much incentive to make poverty as miserable as possible to terrify everyone into the middle class by working harder, and since they own the top the benefit by the trickle up.