| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 250 |
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`Well, it seems to me to amount to the same thing,' said Harlow, and nearly everyone agreed. `It doesn't seem to me to amount to the same thing,' Owen replied. `In my opinion, we are all in a state of poverty even when we have employment - the condition we are reduced to when we're out of work is more properly described as destitution.' `Poverty,' continued Owen after a short silence, `consists in a shortage of the necessaries of life. When those things are so scarce or so dear that people are unable to obtain sufficient of them to satisfy all their needs, those people are in a condition of poverty. If you think that the machinery, which makes it possible to produce all the necessaries of life in abundance, is the cause of the shortage, it seems to me that there must be something the matter with your minds.' `Oh, of course we're all bloody fools except you,' snarled Crass. `When they was |
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