[wyager]

>You think poor folks are trash and deserve the terrible treatment inflicted upon them

Wow, that's exactly what I said! Great summary.

>I don't, and think everybody deserves compassion and decency.

How generous and upstanding of you.

You still haven't said anything besides "you are wrong and mean".

My claim is that enforced substantive equality keeps people down as much as enforced stratification. Address that.

Also, re-reading your original response, it sounds like you don't know what substantive equality means. Perhaps you should "read some basic material", as you say.