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		eli_gottlieb on May 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality Half the taxpayers of the United States make less than $32k/year. How's that a comfortable standard of living?

gadders on May 18, 2012 [–]

But if you are saying $32k is not a comfortable standard of living, then that is a statement about absolute poverty.

$32k would still not be a comfortable standard whether Bill Gates had earnt $1million or $1billion.

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