Inequality

“The market system artificially creates scarcity by blocking the flow between the source and the consumer. Grain may rot in the warehouse while hungry people starve because they cannot pay for it.”

“In the UK in the 1980s, typical CEO pay was twenty times higher than that of the average worker. By 2016, the average FTSE 100 CEO’s pay was 129 times greater than that of the average employee”

“The moral halo around ‘good skin’ isn’t a coincidence...it’s not that we think having bad skin is a moral failing. It’s that we think poverty is.”

“The wealthy tend to overemphasise the importance of lifestyle while sweeping under the rug the actual cost of tinkering with your facial chemistry”

“It is true that many people who become homeless are mentally ill. It is also true that becoming homeless exposes people to a range of traumatic experiences which can create new problems”

“Our most memorable encounters with homeless people tend to be with those for whom mental health issues or drug abuse are evident; you may not notice the family crashing in a motel, but you will remember someone experiencing a mental health crisis on the subway”

“If homelessness is about personal failure, it’s easier to dismiss as something that couldn’t happen to us”