The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Get Poorer
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Sonofcharl
| Voting Style: | Open | Point System: | 7 Point | ||
| Started: | 3/10/2019 | Category: | Economics | ||
| Updated: | 3 years ago | Status: | Post Voting Period | ||
| Viewed: | 1,060 times | Debate No: | 120741 | ||
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 Con  Pro If everyone is getting richer then this implies that the poor are getting relatively richer too. Therefore the poor cannot also be getting poorer. So how come: If everyone is getting richer because America is constantly making more money. Why does the U. S. Have a $22 trillion national debt? |
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Vote Placed by cfossedal 3 years ago
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Reasons for voting decision: Sonofcharl provided an unrebutted argument. "TheCounterArgument" dropped the debate in bad conduct.
"As we make more money the process of luxury good becomes cheaper and allows people to have more stuff. The poor a couple decades ago didnt have electricity or water at ALL. The poor today has just a bit more than what the need paycheck to paycheck"
Who brought up standard of living?
"I'm 15. I don't have solutions. "
Is a 15 year old not capable of thinking or finding a solution? No so I don't see how your specific age does stop you from suggesting a solution.
"Because having a higher standard of living is not the same as being richer. "
You saying this as if it is relevant to the topic at hand. It isn't. It is about inequality. If everyone had a higher standard of living doesn't mean inequality doesn't exist.
"A minimum wage worker is not richer than a medieval king just because he has access to commodities that the king doesn't. "
Rich would require to have a plentiful supply of something and in this situation it is about currency. The point you made here states to me that even you know your point was not needed here. If not what does currency have to do with standard of living?
Because having a higher standard of living is not the same as being richer. As I said, A minimum wage worker is not richer than a medieval king just because he has access to commodities that the king doesn't.
So what do you propose as a solution?
I don't see why you are argued the poor have a higher standard of living,
We're on the same side. The poor ARE not getting richer.
"The poor today has just a bit more than what the need paycheck to paycheck""
Even this is a bad argument. When we look at wages. The poor and the working classes wages have stagnated whereas the wages of the wealthy have increase. You showed an example from 1880. Wow really had to go that far to show poor people have improved but guess what. They are still poor.
""As we make more money the process of luxury good becomes cheaper and allows people to have more stuff. "
Even then can they buy those good when there wages are stagnant? I never heard of ever poor person being capable of the a 50 inch TV. Banks have most of the lower income households littered with debts that they know they can't pay off and what does the government do? Not intervene and better yet buy out those predatory companies that caused the financial crisis.
Simple type in wage stagnation and go to the pewresearch page. Links don't work again.
"because "poor" people have a higher standard of living than they used to. "
Do you call wage stagnation a higher standard of living?