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If you can buy one pair of shoos for £50 and it will last you for years, then the vast majority of society can afford it.
Those that can't should be on social welfare and that should be a small % of the population.
So the question really is how many % of you society requires welfare to live above the poverty level and how can you reduce that number.
One can argue that this effect is real, but I don't think it works as an explanation for poverty.
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If you can buy one pair of shoos for £50 and it will last you for years, then the vast majority of society can afford it.
Those that can't should be on social welfare and that should be a small % of the population.
So the question really is how many % of you society requires welfare to live above the poverty level and how can you reduce that number.
One can argue that this effect is real, but I don't think it works as an explanation for poverty.