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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Things may be better for Western poor people, but they are like the 1% of the poor relative to the 99% trapped in genuine third world poverty conditions. Someone living in a slum (or worse) in Haiti or dying of TB while working in a gold mine in Africa is looking at essentially a hopeless situation.
That's the thing that strikes me the most about OWS - you can talk about wealth gaps, but fundamentally, a shanty still looks like a shanty from 50 years ago. The gap between the Western lower and upper class is nothing compared to the gap everyone in North America has put on the truly poor.
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This.
I hate the difference between the rich and the poor in North America as well, but we are still blessed. We disagree on how to effectively curb a spending problem, while countries like Haiti can't afford the $1/day that it costs to provide water to one person.
Or whatever the cost is.
The definition of poor is wrong. Completely wrong. Poor is not being able to afford your basic needs. Poor is not when you can't buy the NFL package on DirectTV.