For this excerpt, does he account for the change over time of what is needed to live a modest working life? For example, maybe cars are more required to live well in 2015 than in 1965? I’m not certain, but he doesn’t address this. He also uses smartphones and other technological advancements to argue that being poor is very different now than it used to be. While true, it runs the risk of sounding cold against the suffering that still exists in poverty.

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