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Comment by Acrobatic_Road

8 months ago

You could work 15 hours a week if you are okay with early 20th-century living standards.

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Asraelite  7 months ago

For a similar reason I think most definitions of poverty are silly. The poorest people in Western societies today are living like kings compared to the living standards of 1800. It's a moving goalpost that doesn't mean anything. You can measure wealth inequality, but that's a different thing.

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