The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
Author: John Berger
Subjects: Economics | Economy, Life & Society, Material Possessions, Politics & Public Policy
Subjects: Economics | Economy, Life & Society, Material Possessions, Politics & Public Policy
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