“Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.” HumansHas BeensMadeDoneEarthValuesEvilGivenNationsNaturalLossHalfPovertyOughtSpeciesImprovementInventionProvidingInheritanceMonopolyCultivationWretchednessHuman Inventions Book:Agrarian Justice Source: Agrarian Justice
“I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.” HumansGoalPovertySolutionsEntrepreneurExtremesInventionHuman TraffickingTraffickingExtreme Poverty Author:David Batstone
“Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. Socrates made the same point 2,400 years ago: "He is richest who is content with least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.” PeopleYearsMeanMadeEndsCertainSocialWealthPovertyAmountCivilizationYears AgoRelationInventionContentmentGoodsSmall AmountsSocial Status Author:Christopher Ryan