{"id":5779,"date":"2013-05-23T16:49:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T23:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2013-05-23T16:49:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T23:49:26","slug":"what-would-you-rather-be-poor-in-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/what-would-you-rather-be-poor-in-a\/","title":{"rendered":"What would you rather be, poor in a&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>What would you rather be, poor in a country that has a large middle class, or poor in a country that has massive inequalities, with many people like you, a very small number of mega-opulent, and no middle class?Think about it in terms of people you are likely to encounter, and compete with. The super-rich are far away, out of reach, in a class of their own, rarely visible outside the media; the middle class is there to taunt you, humiliate you, make you feel envy.The middle class is cruel to the lumpen; it is only a great concept if you belong to it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151496016173375&amp;id=13012333374\">What would you rather be, poor in a&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would you rather be, poor in a country that has a large middle class, or poor in a country that has massive inequalities, with many people like you, a very small number of mega-opulent, and no middle class?Think about it in terms of people you are likely to encounter, and compete with. The super-rich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[718],"class_list":["post-5779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-lumpen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}