So, they realize that their poverty is not a product of someone else's wealth? Yes. Most people are smarter than most people give them credit for.
The poor tend to think that they are less poor than what they actually are. Many consider themselves middle class. If they were told their actual position in the national income distribution, would they be more supportive of redistribution policies? No. http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/why-are-relatively-poor-people-not-more-supportive-redistribution-guest-post-christopher-hoy?cid=SHR_BlogSiteShare_XX_EXT …pic.twitter.com/XPkdkeGMMQ
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Confiscating wealth by force or threat of violence and redistributing is a question of morality - i.e., it is immoral. Whether or not you would benefit personally in the short run is immaterial. Having ambition means hoping to improve oneself and then not have it stolen away.
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Maybe they understand the morality of taking from one what they have earned and giving it to another who has not.
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Which goes to show you the term “poor” is subjective not objective. A college-educated-high-income-earner-living in Manhattans’s definition of poor is certainly not the same perspective as a fully employed blue collar worker living in a lower income county of Mississippi.
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Maybe the mindset is, if I can do this just fine and I'm this low on the distribution, then why do we need redistribution
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That’s what the last sentence of the abstract says
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Sorta, mine is in simpler terms though, but I didn't actually read that to be honest.
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The poorest in America are richer than 80% of the rest of the world. This stat has held for quite some time.
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Only by absolute monetary values, not by actual monetary power.
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The *poorest* in America do not have any of those things & only the 'richest of the poor', who have gotten so because of abusing support programmes to get money from the gov't that isn't theirs. But go ahead and think that the poorest are the scam artist "poor" only all you want.
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They're actually the vast majority of the poor.
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Interesting but misleading! The study is about inequality acceptance NOT support for redistribution. There are important differences between the two that likely implicate the alleged mechanisms.
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That's because, surprise surprice....Redistribuction policies are theft, period. They're theft wether i keep the loot for myself or give it away to the masses
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You are quite dumb. Hoarding wealth when others are poor, lack healthcare, or outright die from starvation and lack of shelter is pure malice, morally always worse then any imagined, or even real theft.
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Well done, now split your wealth
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