Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order.

Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people.
BOB TORRES

Continue Effectively Must System Unemployed
Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim.
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Demanding Good Quotable System Victim
I hope to get you to think differently about suffering and pain, to convince you that animals matter, and to argue that anyone serious about ending domination and hierarchy needs to think critically about bringing animals into consideration.
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Animal Ending Hierarchy Matter Suffer
Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty.
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Army Order People Poverty
Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order.
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Economic Order Part Place Poverty
However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges.
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Complex Literature Look More Sociological

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