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by davoomac on August 4th, 2006

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Are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer?

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  • by Roger Kovaciny on August 5th, 2006

    Roger Kovaciny

    In the United States, both the rich and the poor are getting richer. Poor in Africa (been there, done that) means you live in a mud-brick house with a thatch roof and eat corn grits every meal. Everything you own would fit in the back of a pickup truck, but of course you don't have one of those. You live in one room divided into two by hanging up your clothes on a line. In rural areas, you have neither electricity nor a table and may have to walk a long way for water. At night, your light comes from a single kerosene candle. There is no screen wire for the one window. Your children have few or no toys, and you expect two or three to die in childhood. You rarely have medicine, though you are often sick.

    American poor would be called "middle" or "upper middle class" in most of Africa, much of south Asia, and parts of Latin America.

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  • by purplecows on December 28th, 2008

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    I have read that the rich are getting richer, and the poor are also getting richer, but not as fast.

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  • by pete1729 on December 28th, 2008

    pete1729

    the rich are getting fewer and the poor more numerous

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  • by slugno on August 20th, 2006

    slugno

    Well dooyyy.

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  • by Trident on March 20th, 2011

    Trident

    Seems like it.

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  • by Dragonsoul on February 7th, 2010

    Dragonsoul

    The rich aren't getting richer these days.. they've got all the poor peoples money.. we just don't have anymore to spend...

    The poor are getting poorer, because the wealthy ran out of viable in-demand product, and have dismantled our quality of life, and are selling it back to us in bits...

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