I’m reading an interesting book at the moment - ‘The Dawn of Everything’ - that basically makes the argument that historically it’s not necessarily the poor of society who were left to bear the brunt of social and economic shit storms.

It’s written by a well known Anthropologist (and an Economist?), so it’s not pie in the sky, but rather an interesting trip through history.

So now when I read articles like this where everyone thinks it’s a normal and proper thing (well of course the poor and renters are going to be shat on, it’s the way of the world! <moustache twirl>), I can’t help but see this as being odd and unfair. It’s not like poor and renters had anything to do with decisions that move the economy in a way that requires them being shat on. Why don’t - as through history - the privileged take the heat too? It’s not natural in any sense of the word. It’s an artifice that we all accept as the way things have to be.

And then I sit back and wonder how I turned into a raving socialist. (But I’m happy with that, definitely sits better with my moral compass).