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Re:Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving on Bitcoins by Helianthus on Friday September 20, 2013 @01:22PM (#6419109)
Wow, you and your fancy calculator sure showed me.

Anti-poverty programs don't automagically give $200 to everyone with no job. And (I assume) the $1/day was a somewhat arbitrary value anyway.

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Re:Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving on Bitcoins by twoodfin on Friday September 20, 2013 @01:31PM (#6419185)
My point was simply that it's a wild exaggeration to assume there are more than a handful of people in the United States who are involuntarily living on <$1/day. Whether it's "arbitrary" or not, it's not even close to reality.
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