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Is it helpful in a discussion like this to use exaggerated rhetoric? Wealthy people aren't in any meaningful way feudal lords.
"everyone else suffers tenuous and desperation"
But that doesn't describe Americans either, where absolute poverty levels are below 3%.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/09/17/americas...
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Is it helpful in a discussion like this to use exaggerated rhetoric? Wealthy people aren't in any meaningful way feudal lords.
"everyone else suffers tenuous and desperation"
But that doesn't describe Americans either, where absolute poverty levels are below 3%.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/09/17/americas...