squalor

I meant only to contrast that with the squalor of where I might have grown up instead.

My parents were immigrants who grew up in conditions of squalor.

So you take that job, for the money. It costs 1/3 of your life, but the benefit is that your spouse and children get not to starve or live in squalor.

There were all sorts of charges of elder abuse and stealing from her, and claims that she was forced to live in squalor.

It's atrocious that human beings have to live in squalor anywhere.

It's not some noble intellectual loophole that you understand shit happens and are above the squalor.

The phrase "private wealth and public squalor" captures the present situation in urban India very well.

Unless you come from a family of means, failure becomes a one way ticket to homelessness, malady, and squalor.

If you can afford a car that costs such an absurd amount of money, you are either living in squalor to afford it or you are not middle class.

" It happens in squalor, mud huts, ice, desert, famine, over excesseverywhere.

And for those that, for whatever reason, cannot survive off of it, well.. don't they deserve at the very least respect over squalor, just by being human?

We can't go to a low-tax jurisdiction in the middle east and set up a luxurious bubble for ourselves amid the squalor.

Most San Franciscans are tired of filth and squalor, and moving the dependent population onto land cheaper by a factor of 100 is compelling.

Even in the relative squalor that they endure living, for example in Los Angeles on mere hundreds of dollars a month, they still want to live here and create a family here.

Basically, anyone who isn't doing well financially, at a root level, many believe that they should either die, or live in squalor, because obviously they have little worth to society.

Or at least, some people were better off, the vast majority died in squalor, unable to protect what was theirs from the local tyrant/"noble".To provide a counterpoint:\nWe already exist in the society you describe.

You will also get a domino effect; people with money and the desire for a nice place to live will automatically avoid your shantytown, filling it with people that don't mind living in squalor, leading to a more squalid shantytown- thus looping back on itself.