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Originally Posted by Damien

Not sure I get where you're coming from? Absolute poverty is not really that relevant to the UK. It's third world countries were it was more endemic. I was pointing out the weird contrast between the fact that inequality is increasing whilst absolute poverty is decreasing. These though are global trends.

Workers rights is a different, very Western, issue which isn't really the same issue as income inequality. We do have better workers rights than the US though if that's your point?

But workers rights is different to income inequality. They're not the same issue.

Right now the EU's commitment to 'workers' rights' seems to involve making it the norm for poorly paid people from all over Europe to undermine the wages and services and therefore the rights of ordinary people elsewhere. Having the right to earn rubbish money isn't all that great but of course for those who aren't affected they're just happy to get their rooves fixed cheaply.