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PVnRT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-04 09:41 AM
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3. The rich get richer, the poor poorer
That is a fact, and if you look at any numbers, you will see that. The only reason that "more than 80% of millionaires are not from non-millionaire families" is because of the day-trading boom, that a scant few managed to get rich off of (assuming that your number is even right, I find it hard to believe without some kind of source).

The fact is, it is harder than ever for the working poor to break out of their situation - they make less now than they did in the mid-1970's, they have to drive further to get to jobs that they make barely enough to survive at. They're lucky if they can find affordable housing.

But, no, there's no caste system here. Nope, nothing to see, please disperse.
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