Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor?
So why is Parvatamma poor?
Kelly M. Kapic • Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn't the American Dream
There are people today who think life was better in the past. They argue that there was not only a simplicity, tranquillity, sociability and spirituality about life in the distant past that has been lost, but a virtue too. This rose-tinted nostalgia, please note, is generally confined to the wealthy.
Matt Ridley • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
The measure of a society’s stage of moral sophistication is how infrequently it requires us to trade gratuities like love and poetry for food. By this standard, our own form of life has not advanced very far.