And the Fabian Tracts, especially No. 5 and No. 7. These are 1d. each.
CHAPTER II WHAT IS WEALTH? WHERE DOES IT COME FROM? WHO CREATES IT?
Those who have read anything about political economy or Socialism must often have found such thoughts as these rise up in their minds—
How is it some are rich and others poor? How is it some who are able and willing to work can get no work to do? How is it that some who work very hard are so poorly paid? How is it that others who do not work at all have more money than they need? Why is one man born to pay rent and another to spend it?
Let us first face the question of why there is so much poverty.
This question has been answered in many strange ways.
It has been said that poverty is due to drink. But that is not true, for we find many sober people poor, and we find awful poverty in countries where drunkenness is almost unknown.
Drink does not cause the poverty of the sober Hindoos. Drink does not cause the poverty of our English women workers.