‘In poorer countries the consumer goods are targeted to that class of poor people so making difference in inequality in places like Australia is more important than in poor countries because they are deprived of a supply of goods because the consumer culture is targeted towards the wealthier middle class.’
If that’s your real reason, perhaps the best way to help poor Australians is to import stuff from Africa so that they get that supply of suitable goods. Or better yet invite some Kenyans to teach them how to make things themselves.
The cheap goods can’t be available to the poor, because then they’d be available to the not poor, and the government enabled rent seeking would no longer work.
If that’s your real reason, perhaps the best way to help poor Australians is to import stuff from Africa so that they get that supply of suitable goods. Or better yet invite some Kenyans to teach them how to make things themselves.
Nope. Won’t work.
The cheap goods can’t be available to the poor, because then they’d be available to the not poor, and the government enabled rent seeking would no longer work.