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They’ve been saying that the poor are getting poorer my entire life. Yet in my country, we’re healthier; longer living; and yes the average person is wealthier
by marketerinland 4y ago
They’ve been saying that the poor are getting poorer my entire life.
Yet in my country, we’re healthier; longer living; and yes the average person is wealthier than ever before.
It’s physically impossible for the poor to get poorer every year without a complete societal collapse. Yet people keep repeating this line.
- bjornsing 4y agoIt has nothing to do with reality. It’s socialist jargon.
- bladelessninja2 4y agoReading this topic, I'm so glad there are people who can see this, there is some hope in this nonsense I see around.
- HKH2 4y agoYou're talking about absolute poverty and they're talking about relative poverty.
- objetovoador 4y agoIn many culture war debates there's a consistent theme of ignoring and/or discounting absolute figures and monomaniacally focusing on relative figures.
- marketerinland 4y ago‘The poor getting poorer’ refers to absolute poverty.