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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Uh huh, with their smart phones, internet, and abundance of nutrition and all.
I get that wealth is piling up at the top more than ever before, but that doesn't mean the poor are worse than before. Something needs to be done about the acceleration of wealth to the top because any rate of change is unsustainable. It isn't a problem that there are strata of wealth, but instead the acceleration of wealth to the top.
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The fact is that the poor,today, are worse off than before 1973.They've made no progress whatsoever since before 1973.
Smart phones are $39.00.That's within the reach of most.Internet and 2-Gigs of data is included on my $30/month Cricket Wireless service from Wal Mart.
As to nutrition,'guess you didn't catch the part about the existence of food deserts in the USA.Plus the assassination of the US Senate committee that attempted to educate the US population about proper nutrition in 1977 by 'Big-Food'.
Free market capitalism economists, Presidents, and the Congressmen they own are responsible.The lowliest ghetto dweller could exceed the potential of the silver-spoon,'wealthy dumb' Ivy-League'rs,if given an opportunity.The few that have managed scholarships have demonstrated that empirically.
And if you're in New York and ever need brain surgery,the top neurosurgeon in the area is a former Mexican wet-back.