It’s Really Complicated to Make Things Simple
2 min readJul 28, 2021
In Down and Out in Paris in London, George Orwell writes about being dirt-poor.
He says:
It is altogether curious, your first contact with poverty. You have thought so much about poverty — it is the thing you have feared all your life, the thing you knew would happen to you sooner or later; and it is all so utterly and prosaically different. You thought it…
