I was careful to not say "the poor have it just as good as the rich", because I specifically did not mean to say that. The rich certainly have far more power, o

I was careful to not say "the poor have it just as good as the rich", because I specifically did not mean to say that. The rich certainly have far more power, opportunity, and resources available to them because economics, but I've noticed a trend to conflate inequality with poverty, or to assume that those with more only have it because they took it from those with less, and both are rooted in the fallacious assumption that wealth is zero-sum. Greater relative wealth means greater purchasing power of scarce resources. But the production of wealth is a consequence of the production of additional resources, which results in greater accessibility of things that were once solely the domain of the rich. I'm not making a value judgement about wealth inequality here - I'm simply pointing out that the rich becoming richer does not mean the the poor are able to afford less - and in fact often indirectly means that the poor can afford more.