Book: Down and out in Paris and London

In the question "what to do with idle half-starved people?" implies the answer is to direct their energies to the production of their own food.

Pull the man from the bottom is necessary and only possible work - not the labor for labor, but the real deal that the contractor would be beneficial.

It seems to me, there are many vagrants, thanking the Lord that they are not vagrants. Like tourists who like to mock tourists.

The receiving charity practically always deeply hate the do-gooders (many times proven human nature), and under cover of the crowd cronies beggar his secret hatred will always show.

Curious human belief in the right to teach, to instruct you on the right path, barely your income falls below a certain amount.

The mistake of thinking that dismissed only grieving the loss of earnings; no, a simple unlearned man, whose bones congenital habit of work, work is needed even more than money. People with more education are able to tolerate involuntary idleness, one of the worst evils of poverty, but like Paddy who can't occupy themselves without work suffer, like dogs on a leash. And so there is nothing to shed tears over those who "from height thrown to the bottom of life." Those who on this day from birth, who have a brain not filled and unarmed against poverty - they are really worthy of pity.

The desire to hurt would seem to find a definition of something nefarious, however in life the degree of offensiveness of words is not enough linked to the actual content. For example, the most severe insult among Londoners is the "bastard", although the value of the "bastard child" hardly offensive. The worst insult to women in London and in Paris - "cow" that might sound like a compliment, because the cow is one of the cutest animals. Obviously, the word becomes offensive only because it so prescribe and perceive, regardless of the lexical base. The meaning of words, especially swear, it's always a choice of public opinion.

Depth the nature of language are irrational just like magic, actually it is the same kind of spells. However, an obvious paradox: all the while cursing, wanting to shock and hurt, we say out loud something forbidden (usually from the field of sexual functions), however, firmly fixed as a curse, an expression of reason loses its meaning, which has become a dirty word. The word became dirty due to a certain value, but this value is lost due to the fact that he became a curse. <...> Apparently, this rule is recognized in the language, words take on a magical character, and in its new, special status is not suitable for the expression the ordinary sense.

A beggar would be able to earn ten pounds a week, the profession he was immediately entered into the rank of respected. Really looking beggar a businessman, like other business people, with the same desire to snatch the place. Honor he received no more major part of his contemporaries; he just made a mistake - chose the craft on which it is impossible to get rich.

The modern world insists about the business activity, efficiency, social significance, but if it contains anything other than "get money, get legal, get as much as possible"? Money has become the overriding measure of dignity. In this test, the poor have zero points, so they despise.

Then the question - why the poor despise, despise together and everywhere? I guess for the simple reason that they are earning the least. In fact, because one does not care, useful or useless work, productive or parazitichnyh; the only requirement is the work should be profitable.

There is a feeling of a certain qualitative differences between poor and decent "working" man. Poor - a special tribe of outcasts like thieves and prostitutes. Working "work", and the poor "does not work", as a natural parasite. He that obvious to everyone "earns" their own bread, as it "makes" a bricklayer or a literary critic; it's just an unfortunate excrescence on the body of society, tolerant because of the humanism of our age, but essentially despicable. However, taking a look closer, you will find that a qualitative difference in the extraction means from the poor and a vast number of respectable citizens there. Say the poor don't work. So what does work? The digger works, waving his shovel; the accountant works Itoga numbers; a beggar works by standing in any weather on the street gain thrombophlebitis, chronic bronchitis, etc Craft among other crafts. Useless? Absolutely. But many very respectable professions completely useless. As a representative of a social group often wins, even the beggar in comparison with other: he was honest sellers of patented drugs, nobler owners Sunday papers, courteous dealers-shill - in short, a parasite, at least harmless. From companies it rarely takes more than is required for basic survival, and what's supposed to justify it according to accepted ethical views fully, abundantly pay their torments. I don't think the poor have something that allows them to allocate a separate class of people, or gives most citizens the right to despise them.

- In my experience, people deprived of money, immediately loses all powers and abilities.
- No, that's like someone. If stood on independence, could go on and on, how he lived, whether there is money or not. Always can hold in their books, your mind. Just say to yourself: "But here is where I am free" - he tapped his forehead - and all in order.

I first noticed changes in connection with your suit women's behavior. When there is a man in a rumpled faded jacket, they cringe and they recoil in disgust, like dead cats. Clothing is a powerful thing. In rags difficult, at least initially, to overcome the actual feeling of his own degradation. The same sense of shame, an obscure and yet very sensitive, experiencing the first night in jail.