"A common measure of poverty is how much……" — William T. Vollmann
"A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of, say, a hunter in the rainforest who has no money but is not poor. And there can be a number of people with money but who can consider themselves unwanted or invisible or estranged from society."
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William T. Vollmann
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26 Quotes by William T. Vollmann
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