11-06-2004, 07:01 PM
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Originally posted by punkworld
The line has to be drawn somewhere, yes. However, drawing that line at a certain amount of money without any other specifications is fairly stupid.
First of all, relative wealth is a much more important factor in determining mobility within society (and that was the context in which you quoted the statistic) than absolute wealth, for obvious reasons. So, a better line would be "the richest 10%", or something of the sort.
Secondly, determining absolute wealth by a set amount of money instead of inflation-corrected purchasing power is positively bizarre.
If you're gonna use statistics as arguments, you should be able to explain and justify them as well.
I think the problem isn't that I'm being willfully ignorant, but that you're being unintentionally ignorant.
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You said you don't care, so why are you STILL trying to debunk a book you've never read? STFU already.
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