The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.
In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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