re: #432 Existential_Donuts

Answer it for me. I am dying to hear it. Really. Inform me.

The best answer is that a surprisingly large percentage of those who are currently “poor” do not expect to be in the same economic stratum in the future.

An addendum to that answer is that a surprisingly large percentage of those who are currently “poor” are not always convinced that they require ever more assistance from their wealthier citizens.

Combined, you find a subgroup of “poor” who are voting not to take more money from the wealthier through a combination of optimism and sense of fair play.

That is why the question is not a paradox. Your inability to discover these answers did not mean they didn’t exist. This isn’t Schrodinger’s Politik.