Indigence Quotes (4 quotes)

“Jeremy Bentham argued that 'even in the best of times the great mass of citizens will most probably possess few resources other than their daily labour and, consequently, be always near indigence'. As long as working man was near indigence, hunger would remain an effective tool to goad him to labour. Bentham argued that an important task of government was to ensure conditions of deprivation, thereby guaranteeing that hunger would [be a constant motivation to work].”
― Linda McQuaig, Cult of Impotence: Selling the Myth of Powerlessness in the Global Economy

tags: bentham, government, hunger, indigence, jeremy-bentham

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“Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Indigence is one of those states, politicians less likely wish to manage.”
― Ymatruz

tags: indigence, indigenous, inspira, motivation, politics, poverty

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“However, as we see in the writings of several liberal political economists, the main problem was not poverty per se, since poverty was actually believed to play a useful function in compelling certain groups of people to labour. Rather, the problem was that there was a constant threat of the poor falling into indigence, which, it was argued, encouraged immoral and criminal offences, thus rendering society less secure. The nineteenth-century institutions and discourses that governed poverty and criminality worked together to police the line between poverty and indigence and to preserve the former while eliminating the threat associated with the latter.”
― Adrienne Roberts, Gendered States of Punishment and Welfare

tags: criminality, indigence, poverty, punishment

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