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Re:India has a hole where its middle class should be by tkxxx7 on Sunday January 14, 2018 @04:40AM (#16143502)
> we find that exposing low-income households to the same food availability and prices experienced by high-income household

Not sure how the researchers at Stanford couldn’t conclude that poor people aren’t going to pay rich people prices

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Re:India has a hole where its middle class should be by barry-cotter on Sunday January 14, 2018 @08:21AM (#16144140)
The following is the remainder of the sentence you quoted

> would reduce nutritional inequality by only 9%, while the remaining 91% is driven by differences in demand.

Most of the difference in what the underclass and others eat is because of taste. And Americans spend less of their budgets on food consumed at home than any other nation.

https://ourworldindata.org/food-prices/#consumer-expenditure...

And healthy food is at worst only very slightly cheaper than unhealthy food

http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/12/e004277.full?sid=820d6e1...

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Re:India has a hole where its middle class should be by tkxxx7 on Sunday January 14, 2018 @10:13AM (#16144543)
i saw the rest of the sentence. You still appear to be glossing over the point, which the rest of that sentence does not refute.
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