12∞ · Question 11.3.11
How have societies explained poverty to themselves?
Often as the fault of the poor. Poverty has been called God’s will, the result of laziness, or evidence of bad character, explanations that comfort the comfortable.
From the book 12∞ Twelve to Infinity by D.R. Davenport. The full answer is free to read with an iBelieve account.
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- 11: How Humanity Got Here
- Gate
- 11.3: The Economics of Fear
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- 11.3.12 → · How does fear of losing one’s livelihood keep things as they are?
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