Supply side economics is based on the (incorrect) assumption that wealthy people treat money the same way
poor people do.
As Stephen Wexler famously wrote, «
Poor people do not lead settled lives into which the law seldom intrudes; they are constantly involved with the law in its most intrusive forms.»
«Poor people don't count,» he said.
Some projects don't deliver as many credits as promised; it turns out that landfills in the developing world don't yield as much methane gas as expected because poor people don't throw away as much food as well - fed Westerners do.
Only very
poor people do this.
And poor people don't have the money to build and maintain fences, so their dogs are much more likely to be allowed to roam.
But this will require proactive public policy; the global technology companies are unlikely to invest in such goods on their own because
poor people do not constitute much of a market.
The government pension plan is funded via taxes and pays out a means tested amount, so well to do people get less (possibly nothing) than
poor people do.
Also, the reverse commute market gives the lie to the argument that poor people don't need or use commuter rail, quite the contrary.
My 17 year old mother was told to «stop that at once; that's something that only
poor people do.»
The worst part is that these poor people don't even know how long they will be in these facilities!
Daniel: In other words, poor people don't care about poor people, so why should rich people?
While
poor people do have their moments of escape from the reality of being poor, their escape pattern usually turns toward the continuous attempt to break out of the trap of despairing poverty.
Of course we know that people are not poor because they are lazy and stupid and that
poor people do not always want handouts, etc..
I know what they were for or did in the past none were for a tithe as a tithe was never money and poor people didn't tithe
Making the rich even richer and hope they throw a bone to the poor people doesn't work.
Unless you've got millions to throw around, a nice trinket to shut your kid up for a few days will always win over feeding a poor person you don't know.
«I was surprised that
poor people did not rely on forests as a safety net,» says Angelsen.
But he also notes another point that Pew has found: «Book reading has almost always been something that richer people do more than
poorer people do.»
Not exact matches
If you run
poor meetings by letting
people talk too long then don't be surprised if
people push back against the no devices rule.
It's certainly a lot closer to driving the change Victoria's Secret claims it wants to see, instead of what it's
doing now which is maintaining the structure that actually keeps
people poor — and kids slaving away in cotton fields.
But, on first glance, it appears that the new draft bill won't
do much to change the Congressional Budget Office's initial assessments that tens of millions of
people would lose coverage and that costs would spike substantially for
people who are old,
poor, or sick (or all three).
«When executives tell me that flattery doesn't work and that
people can see through strategic efforts to garner their support, I cite extensive evidence showing that we are generally quite
poor at discerning deception,» Pfeffer explains.
What the British
people haven't
done is to vote to make us
poorer,» Khan said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The best part is that when you communicate your expectations well,
poor performers will often weed themselves out by leaving on their own while the
people who really
do want to stay will give you all that they can.
In my opinion, one of the reasons
people do such a
poor job in hiring, is that they just want to get it over with,» Matuson says.
The more progressive line argues, as Wolman
does, that reliance on cash transactions «perpetuates [
poor]
peoples» exclusion from banking and the formal economy» and makes it hard for governments, especially in developing countries, to efficiently serve their citizens.
How
do you identify the other
people, the
poor performers?
After studying hundreds of
people both rich and
poor, author Tom Corley reveals the one thing most self - made millionaires
do when they first wake up.
«
People don't want to become
poor again.
But I believe that newer immigrants from
poorer countries are hardworking and not afraid of
doing jobs that
people here don't want to
do.
It needs a complete overhaul, because, as
do many family relationships, it creates a blueprint for systemwide dysfunction, characterized by
poor social skills, unprofessional behavior, bullying colleagues and inferiors until they become successful enough to bully others — or, if they decide to leave, cutting them off completely, disowning them like a son or daughter who's married the wrong
person.
«When it comes to showing solidarity with the
poorer countries in the Mediterranean, parts of the Middle East and in Africa, they succeed in persuading
people that it's all taxpayer money being given to other
people who don't deserve it.»
Did she admit that the Times doesn't care about
poor people, or that the Iraq War was justified?
This lack of knowledge might be due to
poor financial planning — or it might be because most
people don't understand simple finance terms and concepts.
Typically used to explain away someone's
poor behavior, like the top salesperson who treats
people badly or the great engineer who is rude during meetings, the loose translation of this statement is, «Even though it's my job as a boss to address this issue, and I wouldn't let anyone else behave that way, I don't feel like dealing with it.»
Does the World Bank loan money to
poor people?
Most
people probably don't care, but it should bother voters that there is a whole set of rules that place some private investment offerings that may offer superior returns off limits because the government basically deems you to be
poor.
Of course, I don't want
people to suffer, but the longer both the expansion and bull market continue, the more we tend to forget that they can actually end, leading some to make
poor financial decisions.
We're tired of
poor service from companies that don't treat us with respect or that send us into a phone mail maze that wastes minutes of our time and never connects us with a living
person.
Many popular and famous speakers got a quick - start on their careers by teaching at adult learning centers throughout the U.S.
People like Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad,
Poor Dad), Barbara Sher (
Do What You Love and The Money Will Follow), Wayne Dyer (Your Erroneous Zones), and Cheryl Richardson (Take Time for Your Life) built their businesses this way.
The analysis
does not include an additional cost of the legislation: its repeal of the individual mandate, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates could cause as many as 13 million fewer
people to have health insurance, reducing federal spending for
poor and middle - class Americans» health insurance by $ 338 billion over 10 years.
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And while 54 % of low - income
people and 49 % of middle - income
people called the rich -
poor gap a «very big» problem, only 36 % of high - income
people did so.
While it fills the gap for
people who don't have the means to self - finance, it can also be hugely beneficial for those who aren't able to obtain a standard bank loan to due to
poor credit or a lack of overall credit in the market.
With huge numbers of
people who are barely out of poverty, it now needs to prevent near - paupers from falling back, while also dragging the
poorest out of destitution faster than economic growth alone could
do the job.
«We've
done a
poor job as far as getting younger
people involved in our industry.»
«Walmart
does not pay employees enough», «Walmart is anti-union», «Walmart sells
poor quality goods from China», «Walmart is for unattractive
people who live in flyover and voted for Trump» are some popular responses (the last one para-phrased a bit by me, but nevertheless one that reflects a prevailing sentiment).