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Originally Posted by woj
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 99% of the people in the world...
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It's just a number I came up with thus the "if" and not "This is how it is today in...." But it still has some truth to it. Creativity and technological advancement seems to increase with a strong middle class. A poor kid who has to work in some rich asshole's sweatshop 16 hours a day everyday probably isn't going to grow up to be the next Einstein even if he had that talent within him. Put the same kid in a middle class lifestyle with those added resources and the odds increase of the natural talent developing. Common sense I would say.