If I’m poor because I’m lazy and wasteful, then my poverty is a reproach. If I’m poor because I’m genIf I’m poor because I’m lazy and wasteful, then my poverty is a reproach. If I’m poor because I’m generous and industrious, then my poverty is a crown on my head. If I’m poor because I’ve been exploited and oppressed, then my poverty is a sword that will one day break from its sheath. ~~~~~ Si je suis pauvre parce que je suis paresseux et inutile, alors ma pauvreté est un reproche. Si je suis pauvre parce que je suis généreux … Continue reading Si je suis pauvre parce que je suis paresseux et inutile, alors ma pauvreté est un reproche. Si je suis pauvre parce que je suis généreux et industrieux, alors ma pauvreté est une couronne sur ma tête. Si je suis pauvre parce que j’ai été exploités et des opprimés, puis ma pauvreté est une épée qui sera un jour rompre avec son fourreau.erous and industrious, then my poverty is a crown on my head. If I’m poor because I’ve been exploited and oppressed, then my poverty is a sword that will one day break from its sheath. ~~~~~ Si je suis pauvre parce que je suis paresseux et inutile, alors ma pauvreté est un reproche. Si je suis pauvre parce que je suis généreux et industrieux, alors ma pauvreté est une couronne sur ma tête. Si je suis pauvre parce que j’ai été exploités et des opprimés, puis ma pauvreté est une épée qui sera un jour rompre avec son fourreau.

If I’m poor because I’m lazy and wasteful, then my poverty is a reproach. If I’m poor because I’m generous and industrious, then my poverty is a crown on my head. If I’m poor because I’ve been exploited and oppressed, then my poverty is a sword that will one day break from its sheath. ~~~~~ Si je suis pauvre parce que je suis paresseux et inutile, alors ma pauvreté est un reproche. Si je suis pauvre parce que je suis généreux et industrieux, alors ma pauvreté est une couronne sur ma tête. Si je suis pauvre parce que j’ai été … Continue reading If I’m poor because I’m lazy and wasteful, then my poverty is a reproach. If I’m poor because I’m generous and industrious, then my poverty is a crown on my head. If I’m poor because I’ve been exploited and oppressed, then my poverty is a sword that will one day break from its sheath.

Those of us whose early lives were grounded in sixties counterculture movements were witness to a number of social experiments that failed— free love, communal living, and use of narcotics, for example— things that may not have started out as experiments (we were so sure we were right!) but ended up being mostly abandoned in favour of practices that actually made the world a better place. One of these experiments was the libertarian rearing of children. After all children had rights too and who were we to judge what was best for them? We had seen how how own stifling … Continue reading Why did the banks give us the shaft? Because we let them.