Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else.

Marilyn Waring
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The system that motivates people to put up with poverty is the same one that keeps them in poverty. We are all used to the idea of working hard in order to get ahead, but when we start asking why we work so hard in the first place, things start to make more sense.

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