Bad News with a silver lining

[Thumpalumpacus]

Wrong. You have to increase their purchasing power.

Negative.....you would be giving them more money to buy the exact same amount of goods and services.

If you want to make peoples lives better, you have to give them more stuff. You have to produce more.

"Give"? Who's paying for it, Santa Claus?

No, you have to give them opportunity, and let them do the rest.

Of course, no one is arguing that their standard of living is not rising. This is a straw man on your part.

I am arguing the leftist narrative that the disparity between the rich and poor is widening is a lie when you look at from meaningful metrics. The fact that you agree with me is evidence that my argument is not a straw man but effective one.

I'm not sure what language you're reading, but I'm writing English, and I've said it clearly that I am not agreeing with you.

Your argument is clearly a strawman, for the reason stated earlier. I am not arguing that their standard of living is not rising; I'm arguing that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening, and I have provided data to support my assertions, a painfully obvious omission on your part.

If you're going to be dishonest, I'll stop engaging you constructively and go back to the mockery that you seem determined to earn. Please don't lower the level of discourse by making patently false claims. Your honesty in this discussion is required for it to continue.