Poverty Gap

People moan about it growing, but actually it means we're all getting wealthier.
If my income increases by 1000% and Bill Gates' increases by 1%, the poverty gap between us will still have grown, but I'm not going to be selling the big issue.

Posted By: yarmyyarmy on December 6th 2006 at 11:48:00

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Redistribution of wealth (General Chat) - Partial Angler, Dec 6, 11:08:52
- Poverty Gap (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Dec 6, 11:48:00
- Even assuming wealth is redistributed so that everyone has an equal amount (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Dec 6, 11:29:20
  - You mean like if (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Dec 6, 11:30:34
- Take the money from everyone (General Chat) - shoddy, Dec 6, 11:21:02
  - Yes, money is the root of all evil, and (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Dec 6, 11:23:06
    - you will do well at microsoft (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Dec 6, 11:31:40
- depends on how much (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Dec 6, 11:20:26
- If everyone was rich then prices would go up and we'd be back to square one (n/m) (General Chat) - Ben, Dec 6, 11:19:57

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