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A comment on Walmart’s Crime Problem. Parent comment

Re:Walmart’s Crime Problem by merpnderp on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:40PM (#12308705)
So your complaint is with the definition of poverty as a percentage of the medium income?
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Re:Walmart’s Crime Problem by duncan_bayne on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @11:10PM (#12310193)
I don't know about the OP but I certainly have a problem with it myself.

It's a definition of poverty that a) means you can 'fix' poverty by making rich people poorer, and b) morally legitimises envy.

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