Rising prosperity and social conscience drive the poor to hide and isolate

Evidence

Moreover, one may note that the increase of general prosperity, the greater police vigilance and, above all, social conscience which, with a strange mixture of good and bad motives, “cannot tolerate” the sight of poverty, all contribute to impose on poverty increasingly the tendency to hide. And this tendency to hide logically isolates the poor increasingly from one another and prevents them from developing any feeling of belonging to a stratum, as was possible in the Middle Ages. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 447

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Society aids the poor to neutralize a threat, not to help them — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 410; The poor stand outside the group as a form of being inside — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 435; Living people can be silenced by exploitation and poverty, not only by death — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 407 (+1 more)

Related

• The poor stand outside the group as a form of being inside (similarity 0.79)
• Society aids the poor to neutralize a threat, not to help them (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Living people can be silenced by exploitation and poverty, not only by death #expands (0.60) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 407