The myriad “poor” advocates in America must talk about inequality. If they instead talked material condition they’d have to confront the fact that their conditions have improved dramatically.
So why the continued advocacy? I think there are two reasons: 1) it gives people an excuse for their failure. 2) status.
Great presentation of hard data by Stefan Molyneux:
* Judging by living standards, the official poor would have been middle class in the 1970s.
* The poor are largely imported (immigration).
* Conservatives and consistently and considerable more generous than American liberals.
* Religion is a strong indicator of charitable giving.
. . . . There’s just one problem with all of this: Sheldon Adelson. The very week that Caesars’ online gambling play started trading on the Nasdaq, Adelson, the nation’s fifth-richest man–and one of the country’s biggest political donors–thanks to his vast casino holdings, unleashed an army of lawyers and lobbyists on Washington and state capitals, telling FORBES he will “spend whatever it takes” to stop online gambling in America. . . .
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