"They're not REALLY poor-they have color Teevees!"
Tom Tomorrow did a great cartoon skewering this bogus argument 10 years ago. Apparently it's still around, now with all these fancy charts claiming that the prevalence of certain consumer goods--televisions and the internet, for example--prove that there is not really a gap between the rich and poor at all.
The idea that consumption is somehow some great wonderful equalizer is so twisted I don't even know where to start.
Labels: cwa, economic justice, economy, poverty, wingnuts