"Our tolerance for poverty is very high, much higher than it is in other parts of the developed world." and "we have all these anti-poverty programs that accommodate poverty without disrupting it." Those two points might explain why we have poverty. We tolerate it, and the programs don't end it.

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"The landlord of the mobile-home park I lived in let me see his rent rolls, his books. He was bringing home over $400,000 a year after expenses, running the poorest trailer park in the fourth-poorest city in America." Wow.

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