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Relative Poverty

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Relative poverty is deprivation measured against the standard of living normal in one's own society, so it changes as that society changes.

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Lacking what participation in a society requires is poverty there, whatever it would mean elsewhere.

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A society can eliminate absolute poverty and retain relative poverty entirely.