&gt; <i>As it is, the chasm between the super rich and the rest is growing.</i><p>&quot;The rest&quot;, as a complement to &quot;super rich&quot; in the above, clearly means &quot;not super rich&quot;. This necessarily includes various categories such as &quot;merely rich, but short of super&quot;, as well as &quot;well-off&quot;, &quot;struggling&quot;, and &quot;flat broke&quot;.<p>The poverty line is an abstraction that demarcates zones in a political field. What it means to be &quot;poor&quot; is a moving target. Someone from the 1600&#x27;s would laugh at what constitutes a &quot;poor&quot; person today. How can someone be poor and have all that stuff (automobile, iPad, high speed Internet, 50&quot; TV, ...), and weigh 300 pounds, too? And still alive at 45 years old, and smiling---with no missing teeth when doing so. What&#x27;s more, working only 5 days a week for some 7 hours a day.