This is so absurd it twisted my brain. Ten years ago, I could have dismissed your statement as completely infeasible. Now? Would I be surprised if, through the agonizing sacrifice of hundreds of failed attempts in some deregulated research facility, scientists successfully used CRISPR gene editing and human brain organoids to create some abomination that technically could be called classified as a talking animal. I mean probably not but, yea, that’d be wild wouldn’t it.

source(s)?

What exactly happened in Seinfeld?

Just because theyre not “right” doesn’t mean this person doesn’t have a point; when you use the word poor, lots of people can’t or wont identify that way.

I’m in agreement with you generally, and I have made the same argument as you before. But people wont get this, they wont hear your argument because theyre too busy feeling like youre ridiculous for calling them poor. The sheer magnitude of wealth disparity is not well understood by your average joe.

The other commenter is offering more precise wording thats less likely to be understood wrong.

If I want to teach you to cook, but we can’t move on from whether its called a “spatula” or a “flipper”, nobody is learning anything.