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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by pinkfoot on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:30AM (#20764939)
I invite you to visit us in Africa where a dose of real poverty will dis abuse you of your silly notion that relative poverty is a real thing.
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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by atoav on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:59AM (#20765077)
And I invite you to ask yourself why UNICEF uses “my” definition.

I nowhere said that I don’t see that definition without problems or that I wholeheartedly stand behind it. Another definition used by the World Bank is the poverty line, which fails to capture other aspects of poverty (e.g. two parents with full time jobs unable to pay the rent in a rich society).

The definitions of poverty are a huge topic in sociology and economy and if you feel they misrepresent reality, go ahead and make a better one.

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