Originally Posted by
MutantJohn
I don't get how your post had anything to do with what I said, Sebastiani. It read to me as, "I know someone who pulled themselves out of poverty so therefore everyone else can do it and if they can't it's because it's their own fault." Chances are, you're so educated now you can't possibly imagine what it would be like to not be educated so I understand that it'd be hard to understand what it's like to be these people.
To me what you said just sounds like, "Haven't these people ever thought about getting better jobs?" and it makes it hard to take you seriously as a reasonable voice on this.
My point was exactly what I said, let's create a society where impoverishment is unheard of. As it stands now, minimum wage isn't serving its intended purpose which is to supply people a livable wage. This is what I mean by the majority of people needing money to stimulate the economy again. Unless we just invent a bunch of money, wealth distribution is a big part of how we solve this.
I never said there shouldn't be a gradient. There should be for all I care but as it is now, that gradient is far from linear and looks more like a Kronecker delta function.