Reference Class / Comparison Baseline

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The principle that judgments about wealth or success depend critically on the chosen comparison group; comparing a society to imperial elites or to modernity yields 'poor', while comparing it to ordinary contemporaries or other pre-modern societies yields a different verdict.

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