Is Poverty Necessary? • Discoverology

Is Poverty Necessary?

Health, Life, Long Reads

Progress is dynamic, self-generating, unpredictable. Poverty is static, effectively resourceless, subject to interests that are not its own, therefore valuable to those interests. 

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