Re:Facebook’s next project: American inequality
by scramblerollo on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @09:57AM
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You're inferring that poverty and inequality are the same.
Though very connected on many layers they are distinct categories.
For instance I am above the poverty line, yet can be far outranked in monetary scale by a reasonable 40% of society in my country.
I could be seen as having income inequality for the value I contribute to society and yet not fall onto the scale of poverty or even lower income.
Technically the arguement could be made that the difference between the top 5% and 0.5% of society have a far greater inequality between themselves than the rest of us. Poverty is absent in this context.
For instance I am above the poverty line, yet can be far outranked in monetary scale by a reasonable 40% of society in my country. I could be seen as having income inequality for the value I contribute to society and yet not fall onto the scale of poverty or even lower income.
Technically the arguement could be made that the difference between the top 5% and 0.5% of society have a far greater inequality between themselves than the rest of us. Poverty is absent in this context.