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How do you think the current state of "The Poor" in most developed countries compares to 50 years ago? 100 years ago? Is their life expectancy increasing or decreasing? Is infant mortality rising or lowering? Are their educational options increasing or decreasing?
That's the only meaningful measure of a society that cares for it's poor. Measurements between the top and the bottom are pure political fodder - they are emotional appeals, based on an arbitrary and unjust sense of "fairness" that resonates with those who think they deserve what the few have.
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