text: Doesn 't this mean , then , that having a more or less equal distribution of income makes for a happier society , even if it does not raise anyone 's material standard of living ? That is , you can use the fact that people did not feel poor in the 1950s as an argument for a more radical egalitarianism than even most leftists would be willing to espouse .
  
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  People did not feel poor in the 1950s .