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|    Dhu on Gate to Greg Carr    |
|    Re: The Rich Versus Poor Myth    |
|    26 Apr 17 09:14:59    |
      XPost: van.general, can.politics       From: campbell@neotext.ca              On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:24:26 -0700, Greg Carr wrote:              >       > The fact the top 20% of households in Canada hold 67% of the personal              The top .01% is contained within the top 20%, I'm presuming?              > wealth, while the bottom 20% hold no wealth at all seems, on the surface,       > to be a very inequitable and unfair situation.       >              Yes. The universe is inequitable. I think there will be       poor while there are still children of men in the world.       And while it can have immediate good effect, charity is       limited to providing comfort, sustenance, and the liberty       (education, etc.) to change one's lot. I believe our       civilization lives or dies on that last one.              Dhu                            --        Je suis Canadien. Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglaise.        C'est une esp`ece de sauvage: ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco;-)              http://babayaga.neotext.ca/PublicKeys/Duncan_Patton_a_Campbell_pubkey.txt              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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