But this is a false definition of poverty; it doesn't matter how rich the person at the top of the scale is if the person at the bottom doesn't meet any reasonable definition of poverty due to the standard of living of society being high.
The people at the very bottom don't meet those criteria, but to create an arbitary definition of poverty which basically means I live within their criteria is not only misleading, I consider it downright untruthful and even personally offensive, despite by usual abhorrence to taking the language of the victim. The number of people within this country who meet any reasonable definitions of 'poverty' is a tiny minority, and I'd like to see this acknowldged.
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Re: Maths clarification
Date: 2006-01-10 12:13 pm (UTC)The people at the very bottom don't meet those criteria, but to create an arbitary definition of poverty which basically means I live within their criteria is not only misleading, I consider it downright untruthful and even personally offensive, despite by usual abhorrence to taking the language of the victim.
The number of people within this country who meet any reasonable definitions of 'poverty' is a tiny minority, and I'd like to see this acknowldged.