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I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
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The speaker draws on personal experience of both poverty and wealth, then gives a clear preference: being rich is better. The wording is blunt and practical rather than abstract. It treats money as a condition that improves life compared with being poor, without explaining exactly which advantages make it better.
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