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Old 03-28-2007, 07:45 PM
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Default Re: Why \"x% of people have y% of the wealth\" is irrelevant.

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To put it differently, the rich need the poor; without the poor, they cannot exist. The poor, on the other hand, having nothing to lose but their chains (and homes and cars and color TV's) .

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The point you're missing is that it's the poor who build the homes, make the cars, and assemble the color TV's.

Why should they miss out on the things they themselves are creating?

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The poor don't perform any of the three cited examples. I think you could say former-autoworker now poor or former factory worker now poor. But, the only poor carpenters are those who refuse to work.
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