Also, by the standards of a hundred years ago, almost nobody(in the developed world) is poor today. The biggest health issue among the poor today is obesity—try telling someone in 1913 that someone who has the cash to buy enough food to get fat is poor.
Plenty of people can’t afford to pay for their homes. I think that a person from 1913 could accept that a person who could afford the food to get fat is poor if they live in an apartment with twice the people it’s meant to hold and have to budget their paycheck down to the cent to keep their belongings from being repossessed.
It’s not a problem to be ignored, but I don’t intend to worry too much about it. Distributional problems in society have a tendency to get solved, because the people who are on the wrong side of them tend to be the most numerous.
Unfortunately, distributional problems also often end up being solved badly, see for instance the rise of the Soviet Union.
Plenty of people can’t afford to pay for their homes. I think that a person from 1913 could accept that a person who could afford the food to get fat is poor if they live in an apartment with twice the people it’s meant to hold and have to budget their paycheck down to the cent to keep their belongings from being repossessed.
Unfortunately, distributional problems also often end up being solved badly, see for instance the rise of the Soviet Union.