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To: The Philosopher who wrote (834)	6/17/2005 1:41:22 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 544178

I'm not suggesting that poverty is good, or that we shouldn't strive to improve people's lives. We should. But we should also not make policy decisions on the basis of goals that are totally unachievable. I agree that poverty is relative, which is why we won't ever be able to get rid of it in our country. No matter what we give to the poor, they will never be as rich as the rich. So all we're doing is upping our threshold for poverty, which is a limitless process. There have to be poor people or our world can't work. It's not cruel to think so, just accepting of the inevitable. I don't think that activists get that. Seems to me that we have to accept the inevitability of poverty and focus more on class mobility so that people don't get stuck there too long or at least that who gets stuck is based on merit.