Why “poor” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Wouldn’t it be simple for European countries to simply raise the VAT and redistribute the proceeds to poor people, rather than regulate the interchange fees if the concern is in…
by derektank · Sep 10, 2026
Scandanavians have been getting around without cars for millenia. Nobody had even heard of a car until just over a century ago. Car dependent infrastructure is definitely not he…
by Fricken · Sep 10, 2026
Nero was just a poor boy who wanted to play the fiddle. Are you sure Caligula isn't a better comparison? He's the one who constantly tried to own the ̶l̶i̶b̶s̶ senate. That's wh…
by philipov · Sep 9, 2026
Won’t anyone think of the poor SF landowners https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600627#49634171
by chabes · Sep 9, 2026
I think that there was a recent HN thread that linked to an article which argued that the credit card system of USA has the purpose of taking money from the poor and giving them…
by adrian_b · Sep 9, 2026
This is a spherical cow model. Here are their stated assumptions: • Production involves a combination of tasks, where each task is performed by labor or by capital. The final go…
by Animats · Sep 9, 2026
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Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "poor" over time.
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "poor" over time.
Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual lacks the financial resources and essentials for a basic standard of living. It can have diverse environmental, legal, social, economic, and political causes and effects. When evaluating poverty in statistics or economics there are two main measures: absolute poverty which compares income against the amount needed to meet basic personal needs, such as food, clothing, and shelter; secondly, relative poverty measures when a person cannot meet a minimum level of living standards, compared to others in the same time and place. The definition of relative poverty varies from one country to another, or from one society to another. Read more on Wikipedia