I typically scan through my articles 10-12 times, correcting this and that. Scanned through and realized "greedy rich" vs. "lazy poor" would be clearer than "rich" vs "lazy." In both cases, before and after, we're recapitulating what you hear on TV.
I don't personally believe that the average person on food stamps is "lazy." I've helped too many people get filed for them.
We tweaked to "greedy rich" and "lazy poor" in order to acheive the kind of explicit hair-fine balance that would be less likely to set off LR. ... ;- )
Let me give a little bow of thanks that you ain't my editor, bro'. Have had a lifetime's worth of wordsmithing that misses the point of my writing and, as in this case, the wordsmithing must be attended to with all due gravity. A single word betrays the author's credibility, don'cha know, so we are morally driven to get the Word right.
My patience for this ran out about 1992. Let's just agree that I'm unfair and move on.