"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.
"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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