Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month’s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. But as Business Week helpfully pointed out in 2007, the poor in aggregate provide a juicy target for anyone depraved enough to make a business of stealing from them.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Preying on the Poor
Click here to access article by Barbara Ehrenreich from TomDispatch. (Note: if you wish to skip Engelhardt's introduction, you will need to scroll down to the article.)