> In the United States, poverty is used as a cudgel to get people to work.
This is such a bizarre statement. Poverty isn't something that is engineered, encourage, or utilized by "the system" to get people to work. Poverty is the natural result of not working.
Here's some data:[0]
For households in the bottom income quintile, *63% have ZERO income earners.*
For households in the bottom income quintile, the mean household has .4 income earners.
For households in the middle income quintile, 15% have ZERO income earners.
For households in the middle income quintile, the mean household has 1.4 income earners.
For households in the top income quintile, 4% have ZERO income earners.
For households in the top income quintile, the mean household has 2.1 income earners.
Many things are the natural base state of living. Like disease, famine, short life span, etc.
It is a good thing to remember that we are humans. We don't accept freezing in winter: we build houses and heat them. We don't accept our children dying en mass: we vaccinate them.
We are humans. We strive for something much much better than "natural": we want what is good.
This is such a bizarre statement. Poverty isn't something that is engineered, encourage, or utilized by "the system" to get people to work. Poverty is the natural result of not working.
Here's some data:[0]
For households in the bottom income quintile, *63% have ZERO income earners.* For households in the bottom income quintile, the mean household has .4 income earners.
For households in the middle income quintile, 15% have ZERO income earners. For households in the middle income quintile, the mean household has 1.4 income earners.
For households in the top income quintile, 4% have ZERO income earners. For households in the top income quintile, the mean household has 2.1 income earners.
[0] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/explaining-us-income-inequali...