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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
But if 99% of people are living in dirt hovels and are spending 90% of their waking time working for the basics such as food and shelter this tends to put a damper on the given society's creativity and technical advancement. Then the society in question begins to stagnate. Eventually even the 1% will suffer as things such as cures for their diseases are never realized because the people who might have discovered them are now working on a farm or sweatshop instead of where their natural talents are.
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where did you come up with 99%? perhaps 20% are "rich", 60% are middle class, and the remaining 20% are "poor"? and that "poor" is quite relative too, they are "poor" in a sense that they can't afford luxuries that middle class can afford, but in absolute terms they are still better off than perhaps 95% of the people in the world...