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Upper, middle or lower? Which class are you? Perhaps you don’t think class exists any more, but Jeremy Seabrook argues that it most certainly does, just in the way that caste still operates in India- even though it is officially outlawed in that country. Hierarchies and rankings have been with us since the top would have too much to lose. And don’t think that’ classed’ is Just a British Phenomenon. It’s alive everywhere. In the US everyone is ‘middle ...
Why are so many people poor in a world that’s richer than ever before? Something must be wrong with conventional thinking about wealth and poverty Jeremy Seabrook summarizes his celebrated work on the meaning of poverty, drawing on the experience of poor people themselves in both rich and poor societies. He concludes that the opposite of poverty is not wealth but ‘Sufficiency’. The relatively poor majority of the world’s people do not aim to be rich, but ...