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Welcome to our elegant world, poverty!

It is considered that luxury is the opposite of poverty. No, luxury is the opposite of vulgarity.

And another feeling, the giving poverty a great comfort. I think everyone who found out how much a pound down and out of this, it is familiar. A sense of relief, almost of satisfaction from the fact that you're finally at the bottom. Often told myself that come, well, that's sunk, and nothing worth. It adds courage.

However, it was not as bad as it seemed. On the outskirts of poverty, among others, make a discovery that balances many others. Recognize and melancholy, and miserable cunning and hunger, but also the greatest redeeming quality of poverty - the future disappears. In a sense, indeed, the less money, the less worries. Only a hundred francs machines in a desperate act of cowardice; the only three francs did not violate General apathy: today three francs will feed you, and tomorrow is too far. Toil melancholy, but not afraid. Vaguely contemplating: "in a few days we'll just have to starve, the horror, huh?" And broken thought fades, crawls off to the side. Bread-and-margarine diet well, I must say, therapeutic.

If the thoughts and forces of humanity had ceased to spend money on war, we in one generation could put an end to poverty around the world.