Peter Rudd
being indecent
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May 3, 2015, 12:46 pm
Filed under: brave new world, unseen world | Tags: John Kenneth Galbraith, poverty
Filed under: brave new world, unseen world | Tags: John Kenneth Galbraith, poverty
Beyond basic survival, you’re poor if you can’t maintain the sense of being decent in the eyes of the community you live in:
People are poverty stricken whenever their income, even if adequate for survival, falls markedly behind that of the community. Then they cannot have what the larger community regards as the minimum necessary for decency; and they cannot wholly escape, therefore, the judgment of the larger community that they are indecent.
John Kenneth Galbraith
photo: Dionisio González
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