Thursday, January 27, 2011

Write On A Wedding Card ... wherein Peter is not an economist, people.

My latest formspring answer:

Is poverty inevitable?  Does the fact that some people are rich mean that there have to be other people who are poor? [1/23/11, by robbyslaughter -- looks like he's been asking everybody this one ]

I'll take the second question first.

Yes, semantically, if some people are rich, it implies that other people are poor.  That's kind of a vacuous statement, though -- in English, we define \

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