Yes. The definition of being poor is to have no excess income. Which, by definition, means no capacity to accumulate savings.
Poor people are not getting poorer because the cash under their mattress is losing spending power. This is just a wrong way to think about it.
brockm / Mike Brock
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2023-10-27 14:27:22
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