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> [There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing, and it will come…. We should ask what are the causes of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madsen-pirie/there-are-no-causes-of-poverty-it-is-the-rest-state-that-which/)

Madsen Pirie

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> [There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty is the absence of wealth. We should ask, ‘what are the causes of wealth?’](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madsen-pirie/there-are-no-causes-of-poverty-to-ask-what-causes-poverty-is-like/)

Madsen Pirie

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## More by Madsen Pirie

> [There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madsen-pirie/there-are-no-causes-of-poverty-it-is-the-rest-state-that-which/)

Madsen Pirie

> [There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madsen-pirie/there-are-no-causes-of-poverty-to-ask-what-causes-poverty-is-like/)

Madsen Pirie

> [People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the straw man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madsen-pirie/people-often-find-it-easier-to-refute-a-fake-extreme-opponent-than-a/)

Madsen Pirie

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