argumenta ad Lazarum

Noun

argumentum ad Lazarum (plural argumenta ad Lazarum)

1. (rare, rhetoric) An appeal to poverty; the logical fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct because the speaker is poor.
   • Indeed, the geographical fact that economic wealth and neoliberal globalization are very geographically concentrated, with just a few cities in advanced economies being the preferred locations for the world’s major stock exchanges, for the headquarters of banks and other producer service firms...2013, Richard G. Smith, “The ordinary city trap”, in Environment and Planning A, volume 45, page 2290