The New Yorker had an article, by John Cassidy, trying to redeem the concept of poverty. That tells me the concept of poverty is being recognized by the upper West side of Manhattan as dead and gone. The debate that was supposed to happen after the visible shabbiness of New Orleans was revealed never happened. One person said the dialog ended up like one hand clapping.
Now that the emptiness of the idea of poverty has been understood, the tenacious Lefties, for whom poverty was a cornerstone of their intellectual edifice, have introduced their real underlying agenda: "relative poverty."
As I pointed out earlier, poverty as a fixed proportion of our income distribution is a vapid truism. That idea is precisely what is proposed in the New Yorker with the concept of "relative poverty."
This new kind of poverty could always be with us. Perfect for the nattering class of elite perpetual whiners.
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