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Should the Rich Help the Poor?
🕑 Added 2016-12-10 10:25:16 +0000 UTC Hello lovely Patrons! Here's a new video about wealth, poverty, employment, and what the best way to frame these sorts of questions is...
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Illya Lypyak
The Soul of Man Under Socialism mate... also I know your in the left so what do you identify as?
Here is Thoreau’s famous thought, from chapter one of Walden: “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root …” Rarely cited is the rest of the sentence: “… and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.” And before this sentence, the start of its paragraph: “Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.“
