Gengap
When a laborer in a sweatshop in the Phllipines or Banagaladesh or China or India or Mexico or etc. is paid pennies a day for a product that shows up on the shelves of Zellers KMart and WalMart who do you think is winning the war on poverty?
When the wealthy purchase products, are they buying products at the same stores?
When the opportunities for children...when it comes to education and participating in social activities at school that require special equipment..sporting goods for example... who has the benefit of an income capable of meeting the expectations that the wealthy dictate?
When a kid wearing used clothing and a kid wearing designer jeans (or a suit) apply for a job...in the postmodern world of consumerism...who do you think makes the most favorable first impression?
Is it poor kids who require extra bus fair...or is it the children dropped off at the school by their parents (or nannies) from the Escalade and the Johnny Bauer Explorerer? When activities that poor adults and children of poor people wish to participate in..is limited by subsistance incomes....who ultimately pays the price?
When more money can be made selling crack and MJ on the corner...who's going to be the people selling this stuff?
When governments create black-markets for tobacco products and firearms, who will be most vulnerable to being convinced that the wealthy don't really care about how the poor live..and will be more easily talked-into criminal activity...?
To suggest that the measure of poverty is simply a matter of income....is like suggesting that the children of wealthy families don't buy and sell drugs....we know they do...and we know that the reason why they do is because there's much more going on in the dynamic of that family and this society than simply that poor people make poor choices...
Poverty is a systemic issue and the perception of poor people being less-entitled to everything from high-priced legal help to a shot at an interview for a job is every bit as similar to other constructs in this society. Women have faced a double standard forever...and so have the poor.
When a laborer in a sweatshop in the Phllipines or Banagaladesh or China or India or Mexico or etc. is paid pennies a day for a product that shows up on the shelves of Zellers KMart and WalMart who do you think is winning the war on poverty?
When the wealthy purchase products, are they buying products at the same stores?
When the opportunities for children...when it comes to education and participating in social activities at school that require special equipment..sporting goods for example... who has the benefit of an income capable of meeting the expectations that the wealthy dictate?
When a kid wearing used clothing and a kid wearing designer jeans (or a suit) apply for a job...in the postmodern world of consumerism...who do you think makes the most favorable first impression?
Is it poor kids who require extra bus fair...or is it the children dropped off at the school by their parents (or nannies) from the Escalade and the Johnny Bauer Explorerer? When activities that poor adults and children of poor people wish to participate in..is limited by subsistance incomes....who ultimately pays the price?
When more money can be made selling crack and MJ on the corner...who's going to be the people selling this stuff?
When governments create black-markets for tobacco products and firearms, who will be most vulnerable to being convinced that the wealthy don't really care about how the poor live..and will be more easily talked-into criminal activity...?
To suggest that the measure of poverty is simply a matter of income....is like suggesting that the children of wealthy families don't buy and sell drugs....we know they do...and we know that the reason why they do is because there's much more going on in the dynamic of that family and this society than simply that poor people make poor choices...
Poverty is a systemic issue and the perception of poor people being less-entitled to everything from high-priced legal help to a shot at an interview for a job is every bit as similar to other constructs in this society. Women have faced a double standard forever...and so have the poor.
I don't believe that even generally, just that it's funny. 
