Where are the poor? The answer is: Everywhere. They hide themselves behind their own multitude. (...)They mostly work. That is the best way of hiding themselves. No one notices that they are unable to buy food to satisfy their hunger, because they never come into the shops to buy anything. (...) Adulterated food and too little of it, infected dwellings, repression of the natural instincts, all that takes a long time to destroy a man.
Hooked_on_books This would be a good nonfiction pairing, based on that quote![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
Poverty, by America 2y
Poverty, by AmericaLeniverse @Hooked_on_books The Threepenny Novel is set to London during the Boer War, so late Victorian era. It's a satire over late-stage capitalism. And it seems to me that it is sadly relevant to the UK of today, and probably very much the US as well. 2y
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