Poverty - relative vs. absolute

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I disagree with the concepts of absolute and relative poverty; actual absolute poverty would have to involve having absolutely nothing or the term has no real meaning at all, and taken to it's logical conclusion, relative poverty means that a man making $1million in some gated neighbourhood where the average income is $5million is somehow "poor". Up to a point both concepts are actually very demeaning to the people apparently included in each catagory. Telling someone that has something that they have nothing is just rude as is telling some poor bastard in St Denis, Bootle or the Bronx that thier poverty is merely "relative". Not that it matters because "poors" aren't real people. They probably smell as well, right?

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