<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>parineum</author><text>&amp;gt;Lift up as many people as possible. It’s a fallacy to think that there must be poor people.&lt;p&gt;To illustrate this point, in our current era of the mega rich, we also have record low levels of poverty.&lt;p&gt;Wealth isn&amp;#x27;t a zero sum game. It&amp;#x27;s possible (but not always the case) for a billionaire to create more than a billion dollars of wealth for other people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>Lift up as many people as possible. It’s a fallacy to think that there must be poor people.&lt;p&gt;One day, hopefully not too many days away, our descendants will wake up and discover that the last poor person has been lifted from poverty.&lt;p&gt;To get there from here, we have to take it one day at a time, and focus on changing what we can.</text></item><item><author>xwdv</author><text>It’s great to lift up the poor, but up to what extent? Poor will still be poor, so what’s an acceptable amount of poor we should allow where they just have to deal with it?</text></item><item><author>kevmo314</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s easier to take away than to give and help. So I don&amp;#x27;t blame them for that mentality, but it would definitely be great if society worked to lift the poor up more.</text></item><item><author>parineum</author><text>I think this attitude of, instead of raising the bottom, lowering the top comes from a desire to punish rich people rather than help poor people.&lt;p&gt;I think these people would prefer everyone sit on rocks rather than poor people sit in wooden chairs while rich people had leather couches.</text></item><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>The problem isn&amp;#x27;t that a rich guy can make bail. The real issue is that so many poor people are trapped by bail bonds they can not meet or which put extreme financial strain on a family that is barely making it to begin with.&lt;p&gt;Part of it is that the bail bond industry can afford lobbyists, and probably a bigger part is that &amp;quot;tough on crime&amp;quot; grandstanding by politicians is nearly always a winning strategy. It is too easy to claim a politician that advances any kind of reform will be pilloried as someone who is trying to put savage criminals back on the street, your street.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?</title><url>https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/how-did-sam-bankman-fried-get-bail</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Godel_unicode</author><text>&amp;gt; It’s a fallacy to think that there must be poor people.&lt;p&gt;Is that actually true? I’m very curious if there’s any theoretical evidence that a society where everyone is at minimum “middle class” can exist.&lt;p&gt;Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>Lift up as many people as possible. It’s a fallacy to think that there must be poor people.&lt;p&gt;One day, hopefully not too many days away, our descendants will wake up and discover that the last poor person has been lifted from poverty.&lt;p&gt;To get there from here, we have to take it one day at a time, and focus on changing what we can.</text></item><item><author>xwdv</author><text>It’s great to lift up the poor, but up to what extent? Poor will still be poor, so what’s an acceptable amount of poor we should allow where they just have to deal with it?</text></item><item><author>kevmo314</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s easier to take away than to give and help. So I don&amp;#x27;t blame them for that mentality, but it would definitely be great if society worked to lift the poor up more.</text></item><item><author>parineum</author><text>I think this attitude of, instead of raising the bottom, lowering the top comes from a desire to punish rich people rather than help poor people.&lt;p&gt;I think these people would prefer everyone sit on rocks rather than poor people sit in wooden chairs while rich people had leather couches.</text></item><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>The problem isn&amp;#x27;t that a rich guy can make bail. The real issue is that so many poor people are trapped by bail bonds they can not meet or which put extreme financial strain on a family that is barely making it to begin with.&lt;p&gt;Part of it is that the bail bond industry can afford lobbyists, and probably a bigger part is that &amp;quot;tough on crime&amp;quot; grandstanding by politicians is nearly always a winning strategy. It is too easy to claim a politician that advances any kind of reform will be pilloried as someone who is trying to put savage criminals back on the street, your street.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?</title><url>https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/how-did-sam-bankman-fried-get-bail</url></story>