> It's _the opposite_ of what I said. All I want is [...]

Then I sincerely apologize. What you wrote sounded like excuse making for why the poor don't really have it so bad and why the inexorably increasing income inequality in our society isn't a problem.

If it's not, and you're merely making a dry critique of the analysis... meh. It's still not really helping anyone now, is it? "We need better data" is what climate denialists like to say too.