Yes, poor people have color TVs

[quaker bill]

38. They have indoor plumbing and electric lights too.

-- at least when they can pay the bills, and aren't homeless ---

No one here, that I am aware of, gets by through scavenging at the landfill, mostly because modern landfills don't allow it. No one lives at the landfill in huts made of scavenged scraps, a practice more common in the third world. We don't allow it.

However there are a few folks here who come by and go through my recycling for the aluminum cans every few weeks, more towards the end of the month, just before the social security checks come out. So they are sort of "pre-landfill" scavenging.

Folks here will go to considerable lengths to deny the existence of poverty. When that does not work, they disparage the character of the poor, as in this "land of opportunity", only the "morally defective" fail to succeed.

They will do anything to not admit that the system is flawed and in fact leaves many behind with intent. This is where the supply of cheap labor comes from, and at any time cheap labor gets scarce the economy is intentionally slowed to produce more of it.