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[erolz66]

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[cyprusgrump]

Excellent!

Another subject that you can waste your life posting page after page that nobody reads about...

[Londonrake]

What does "relative to others" mean? Having spent time in the likes of India, Papau New Guinea, Belize the term's a bit nebulous.

[erolz66]

Excellent!

Another subject that you can waste your life posting page after page that nobody reads about...

Yeah how much better it would be if only I were to spend my life in the relentless pursuit of accumulating ever more things far beyond any actual need. A life well spent indeed.

As for nobody reading my posts, Londonrake the foremost 'TLDR'er still managed to notice my use of the term FFS and apparently without reading my posts

I am curious CG, what number marriage are you on ?

[erolz66]

What does "relative to others" mean? Having spent time in the likes of India, Papau New Guinea, Belize the term's a bit nebulous.

The term relative poverty is a term that applies within a given country and is most commonly defined as someone who's income is below 50% of the national average income.

[Paphitis]

What does "relative to others" mean? Having spent time in the likes of India, Papau New Guinea, Belize the term's a bit nebulous.

Why not throw in the illegal "turkish republic of tnucland" for good measure?

you are damned if you do and damned if you don't and they want open borders.

[RichardB]

If you define poverty as person(s) struggling for food warmth and shelter then of course the answer would be yes. However this could be said of any country in the world.
I don't know where this thread is going or the relevance of it being posted on a Cyprus forum
Regards Richard (married once coming up to 42 years)

[cyprusgrump]

What does "relative to others" mean? Having spent time in the likes of India, Papau New Guinea, Belize the term's a bit nebulous.

It is the term they use to make the number look bigger...

Households in relative poverty earn 60 per cent of the median earnings at the time, though the figures are adjusted according to how many people are in a household since their income needs will differ.

Clicky...

You don't need to think about it too much to realise that as society gets richer more people end up in 'poverty'...

[cyprusgrump]

Excellent!

Another subject that you can waste your life posting page after page that nobody reads about...

Yeah how much better it would be if only I were to spend my life in the relentless pursuit of accumulating ever more things far beyond any actual need. A life well spent indeed.

As for nobody reading my posts, Londonrake the foremost 'TLDR'er still managed to notice my use of the term FFS and apparently without reading my posts

I am curious CG, what number marriage are you on ?

I always tell Mrs. CyprusGrump that she is my first wife to keep her on her toes!

As for spending my life 'in the relentless pursuit of accumulating ever more things far beyond any actual need.' you prove once again that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about...

[erolz66]

If you define poverty as person(s) struggling for food warmth and shelter then of course the answer would be yes. However this could be said of any country in the world.
I don't know where this thread is going or the relevance of it being posted on a Cyprus forum
Regards Richard (married once coming up to 42 years)

The relevance of this poll is in the link in the OP where CG claimed "there is no 'poverty' [in UK] save for the ridiculous measure of 'Relative Poverty'..." As you have pointed out a ridiculous notion. My interest was in seeing how many other people here shared that ridiculous notion with CG. I will be putting you down as someone who does not.