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I am getting tired of reading about amorphous blobs of people with agency & goals. There is a difference between "the Republicans," with their official party line, and "the right." Same for "the left." Headlines about "the rich," and "the wealthy," or "coastal elites." It's dumb.
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Discretizing the world into buckets is hard. Take constructs like "the global poor." Crossing the income line between $.99 to $1.01/day is not consequential - the scale is continuous! Arbitrary boundaries are helpful to construct narratives. Narratives can be deceiving.
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However wonky they might be, the point still holds. There is no phase transition at $1.99. In fact, even $2/day is about lumpy payments over a few days averaged out, boiled down to that scalar measurement. The shape of that distribution matters, too. The group is not homogenous.