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CWuestefeld on June 28, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bee Sting Theory of Poverty

It sounds like these arguments don't concern poverty as such, but rather inequality.

If that's the case, then I think we have to restate the OP as "the poor are paralyzed by envy".

crystalis on June 28, 2010 [–]

I was simply trying for some precision in terminology, and I think we're mostly there, but your politics might be showing.

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