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Sunday, September 1, 2013

How the world got poorer



History is usually (and cynically) seen to be the story of the winners.

The Documentary, Poor Us, tells the history of the so-called "losers."

The poor in our modern era, are unfairly, and contra-historically, considered to be the "losers". But as this film shows, the "poor" aren't losers but a by product of historical processes. 

The world, as we learn has got poorer, beginning with the proto-industrial and the industrial eras. The wise voice of Karl Marx says that the poverty we witness in the world wouldn't have happened without capitalist system of production.

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