I hate what G.P. calls the New People, the new class people with their cars and their money and their tellies and their stupid vulgarities and their stupid crawling imitations of the bourgeoisie.(...) The New People are still the poor people, it is the new form of poverty. The others hadn't any money and these haven't any soul. John Fowles
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In the early 20th century, George Orwell wrote a book called Down and Out in Paris and London . In the book, Orwell describes a time when the poor were not happy to live in Paris and London. They wanted to live somewhere else. This was a time when being poor was considered a bad thing, but being poor with money was considered a better thing.

The lower class people had no money and no jobs so they had nothing to do but spend their time drinking, playing cards and going to the movies. Being poor meant only having a few days of meat a week, being poor with money meant being able to buy as much meat as you can eat. The new class people with their cars and their money and their tellies and their stupid vulgarities and their stupid crawling imitations of the bourgeoisie were living in a better life than those who were still living as poor as they could be.

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