re: Sources: ESPN laying off hundreds

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our poor being better off than other nations poor really has very little, if anything, to do with the fact that the increasing wealth inequality is a very real problem that will eventually bite the super wealthy and major corporations in the arse.

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actually it has everything to do with it

if our poor are bettering their lives at a faster rate than any other poor, then who cares what advances the rich make?

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proclaiming that our poor are better off than the poor in any other nation in the history of the world is a dubious claim at best.

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well our poor today are clearly better than the poor of the past. which country's poor are better than our poor? there probably are examples of people at the end of the economic spectrum being better off, but i don't know if those dregs are comparable to our dregs

but it is clear that now is the best time to be poor in an advanced country in the history of the world