In his recent book, “The Conservative Heart,” AEI President Arthur C. Brooks draws attention to the dignity of all work. Pointing out the contrast between a poor — but thriving — Indian slum and a wealthy — but stagnating — Europe, Brooks writes:
If you look at Dharavi and see people living in greater degradation and less dignity than someone in Barcelona who has been unemployed for a decade, there is something deeply wrong with your analysis. In a word, it is materialistic. Of course there is breathtaking poverty in an Indian slum. We have moral duty to relieve it however we can. But in the midst of these people’s too-difficult lives, what I saw when I visited Dharavi was dignity. What I see when I visit Barcelona is degradation.
Natalie Runkle is an editorial intern at AEI.
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