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backscatter712

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2. The 1% is now terrified.

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2013, 10:25 PM

Mar 2013

When the poor aren't struggling and desperate, when they're not forced to spend 110% of their energy putting their nose to the grindstone to slow the rate of starvation for their family, they start speaking out, demanding obnoxious things like civil rights, and demanding they get a fair share of the fruits of their labor.

The 1% can't have that...

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World poverty is shrinking rapidly, new index reveals [View all] alp227 Mar 2013 OP

Damn shame Detroit didn't make the list. Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #1

The 1% is now terrified. backscatter712 Mar 2013 #2

Don't worry primavera Mar 2013 #13

I'd love to see Phlem Mar 2013 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author Rhiannon12866 Mar 2013 #4

a rising tide lifts all boats... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2013 #5

Nepal... really...? I suppose I imagined Dalit women breaking gravel with hammers JCMach1 Mar 2013 #6

"The study found that in 2013 a total of 1.6 billion people are living in "multidimensional" poverty pampango Mar 2013 #7

Del Monte has guard posts equipped with rifles JCMach1 Mar 2013 #17

All quite true. That over a billion are still poor pampango Mar 2013 #20

I really don't buy the study... I am not an economist, but JCMach1 Mar 2013 #26

Agree with respect to the methodology of the Oxford and UN studies. They may be flawed. pampango Mar 2013 #27

Yay, Thomas Friedman was right... Alkene Mar 2013 #8

I know many on this board hate this word but globalization is main reason for this. DCBob Mar 2013 #9

Good. Now to sustain this.... mpcamb Mar 2013 #10

Its the rapidly falling birth rates. Exultant Democracy Mar 2013 #11

Whole lot of people actually upset over this. Ugh. (nt) Posteritatis Mar 2013 #12

My first reaction is that this is bullshit lunatica Mar 2013 #14

+1 tawadi Mar 2013 #15

Record numbers of the middle class worldwide are being reduced to poverty levels... Earth_First Mar 2013 #16

a lot of it has been offloaded to the US Doctor_J Mar 2013 #18

"Dark Africa" has come for our jobs, eh? pampango Mar 2013 #21

So the fact that our shoes are now made by workers Doctor_J Mar 2013 #22

We don't have to wall of the world's poor in order to have a strong middle class. pampango Mar 2013 #24

That was insightful...eom Kolesar Mar 2013 #29

Jeb Bush will see to the demise of that!!! nightscanner59 Mar 2013 #19

There is no reason for progressives to feel threatened by the possibility that the world is making Douglas Carpenter Mar 2013 #23

Just wait until the Friedman's Chicago boys get ahold of these nations. Dawson Leery Mar 2013 #25

The more the standard of living increases madville Mar 2013 #28