There is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty and the perception of human beings as disposable property.

Beatrice Rose Roberts
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According to the great poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, there is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty and the perception of human beings as disposable property. One of the tragedies of our world is that we live in a society that separates people into groups based on their income level. As soon as someone reaches a certain level of income, they are considered above those below them.

If you are poor, then you are only poor to those who are rich. If you are middle class then you are middle class to those below you and above you. If you are rich, then you are rich to those around you and poor to those below.

In this sense, all people have been reduced to a single characteristic – wealth or poverty – and separated by it from the rest of their kind. Sadly, this is a world where people can be killed for being poor or being rich.

Source: A Flag For Betty: From The Diaries Of A Whistleblower

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