Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- They called a certain disease lack of money.
- In plain terms
- Poverty was once described as a disease.
- What can you take from it?
- Recognize poverty as a systemic issue.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does labeling poverty as disease affect solutions?
- What alternatives exist to this view?
Another view
Not all poverty fits a disease model.
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