> amount of money to allow them to freely choose their lifestyle.
>
> Abject poverty removes freedom to choose. It's not a choice
> of not buying the more expensive car or eating at home. It's
> a choice of eating or dying, and eating means either doing
> something illegal or taking whatever crap offer comes up that
> doesn't really allow you to improve your situation other than
> being able to eat and live another day to make just enough
> money to eat. Repeat.
>
What you say is true, but again, I was speaking to a specific argument that
he made, which DID involve lifestyle choices. Some causes of poverty _are_
based on lifestyle choices, but certainly not all.
Again - I was not arguing against the minimum wage law.
-rc
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