inequality
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The law has always had a poverty line, and crossing it downward has repeatedly been a crime. Vagrancy, begging, sleeping in public, owing money you could not repay, all of these have carried sentences, some within living memory. Crossing a wealth line upward has never carried one. Wealth has a floor with police standing on…
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We have always treated the body as the one thing that is unambiguously ours. You can lose your money, your house, your name, your reputation, but the body was the floor beneath all of it, the last possession that could not be repossessed. Even the law, which will take almost anything from you, has historically…