"The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All" by Herbert Gans (1971)
Bonus:
Actual footage of Herbert Gans
Summary: The poor are the GRIST IN THE MILL OF SOCIETY!
Commentary:
Read one of his other articles for school and looked him up. Apparently this is his most famous. It contains the excellent:
Alternatives for the cultural functions of the poor could be found more easily and
cheaply. Indeed, entertainers, hippies, and adolescents are already serving as the deviants needed to uphold traditional morality and as devotees of orgies to "staff" the fantasies of vicarious participation.
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