On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, B. Crachiolo wrote:
[> > There is still a very real notion among some today that the poor
> > deserve their plight and are there because they deserve it.
> [beth wrote the next bit:]
> An honest question: Does it take the if-you-work-hard-you-won't-be-poor
> connotation in Europe that it has in the U.S.?
hiya beth!
i would say, off the top of my head, that in England there is an
element of that, in a Thatcherite mould; but that the main paradigm is
still a more fatalistic "there must always be poor people" and you cannot
do anything about it. In fact, one might argue that that is what lies
behind the whole farce of monetarist economics.
cheers
john arnold
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