Are the poor self-responsible for their misery ? Historically, it is not so simple. In Antiquity, the thetes in Athens, the slaves in Sparta and the very endebted plebeians in Rom were driven in mass poverty. The serfs in the Middle-Ages had no rights of possesion and money wasn’t very common among the common people, exept for the late middle-age. In modern times Margaret Thatcher belived that cause of poverty is a lack of character. This seems to me like someone believe that every situation is wated from god(s) and so also the class system with poor classes, like in the indian caste system. These abstract metaphysical ideologies, as well old like the indian caste system or the ultraneoliberal tendencies since the 1980s, seems to be founded unprecise premisses which are often deprived of the the larger picture, the grether good, exeptions of the ideological rules, non-selfcritic, unsystematic and unscientific. Behind many dubious systems and ideologies there are pretextes to legitimate wealth and power. Often the qantity of money also determines the amount of influence on the masses or the government.

My issue is to prevent degenerative policies in the future which could lead to make war on the poor and not on poverty, so that the future is full of working poors, i.e. individuals with jobs but a work and life without dignity. To be sure that some policies of the state and the riches are not a weak excuse to work harder for the well-being of the people or to pay taxes or to take any responsability to someone other than one self, I will check precisely and severely these ideologies which needs to be examinated more seriously. I should base my conclusions to real observations and I don’t want to make some hypothetic speculations like the capitalist Fridrich von Hayek or the communist Karl Marx did it. Even more the observations and thesis which I did about the economy will be noted below.

Julien Sita, 4th February 2021.