Oh dear.
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is people who
have made poverty and tolerated poverty, and it is people who will
overcome it.
If you start out with such a misdiagnosis you’ll never be able to offer the right treatment.
Poverty is, how ever much we wish it wasn’t, the natural state of mankind. It is the starting point, not something that is created at all, it’s something that is there before we start to try and do anything.
The thing that is created is wealth, not poverty. What we need to study is not how poverty is created, for that is what is there already, but how wealth is created, which is the different and interesting thing.
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