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@VeryBadLlama There's also this frustrating "anchoring point" where poverty is forever defined as Depression Dust Bowl and if you aren't wearing a burlap sack, you can't possibly be poor. To be "really poor" you have to be shot solely in sepia tone.

Social norms have advanced: we no longer consider electricity, running water, and access to information (television, mobile phone, whatever) as luxury goods.