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Crime of Poverty:
Why does Henry George say that people should not blame poor people for their poverty?
Very few people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. We all start life at the same starting
point. And regardless of where you start out, your success in life is not only determined by
positive thinking and self-confidence, but it is also determined by the society you live in, who
you are born to, and the opportunities that are presented to you.
If you are born into a rich family, things like education, health care, and connections are much
easier to access than if you're born into poverty. So no matter where you start out, your chances
of success are hugely dependent on the conditions around you.
If you are born into a wealthy family and become drunk with power, abusing those below you
will not only be tolerated but it will be expected. If these people did not have the wealth or power
they do, they would have long-since been rejected from society as a whole and very few people
would miss them. The poor people around them are never given the choice to leave—they are
trapped there by circumstance.
The people around us reflect our real values by their reaction to us and our circumstances—they
either punish us for getting ahead or envy us and ignore our fellow man. If we truly believe this
is how things should be, then we should all give up on trying to change anything or blaming
anyone for any bad situation that we find ourselves in; blaming really only serves as an excuse
for inaction since our blame object cannot change themselves after being blamed no matter how
much we beg them too.
What are some of the working conditions George describes?

1). A boy is nailing up a sign on a building scaffold. The nail is three inches long and one inch
below the head the boy has driven it into the board there is a sharp spike of iron.
2). A young woman is sewing in a factory. Her sleeves are full of holes at the elbows.
3). A bricklayer 's apprentice, who is twelve years old, works in a heated bake-shop. The smell of
the baking bread makes him sick, but he cannot change his work until he has earned enough to
pay for admission to some other employment.
4). A young girl with her little brothers and sisters is walking back through our streets at night
after working all day in a factory at piece-work. The dark figures of men lounging about on the
door-steps are not those of fathers waiting for their children; they are their employers following
them home to see that they do not ...