The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All Herbert J Gans

Mentioned at the start of the chapter is how the poor provide jobs for others (ie: social workers, criminologist, journalist and much more).  When I personally think of poverty and the poor, I think of Diogenes who lived with pretty much nothing and needed nothing and believed in living a self controlled minimalist life. Which isn’t the way most poor look at their circumstances today because of the more you have the higher your status in our society mentality,(at least not globally). I also agree with Gans ’13 functions of the poor’- we need the poor to keep our society and economy functioning.