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Re:Being poor changes your thinking about everything by shalmanese on Saturday September 14, 2013 @04:25AM (#6385044)
I asked a question on Quora that garnered a number of interesting replies to this question:

http://www.quora.com/Poverty/Which-is-harder-being-poor-in-A...

The basic gist is that just looking at quantity of physical possessions is an impoverished way of analyzing the situation.

Re:Being poor changes your thinking about everything by qu4z-2 on Monday September 16, 2013 @12:38AM (#6391662)
I think that way of looking at poverty is also very telling about the people doing the assessing.