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To: mph who wrote (26787)8/18/2006 10:54:50 AM
From: epicure  Respond to of 543033
 
Yes she was. Obviously she was focusing on her fear of drudgery (and she did do that dramatically), but poverty is included. I am interested in poverty, so I picked up on that aspect.:

" I just don't get it. Why are people so scared of unlikely, episodic violence but not of very likely chronic misery--poverty, financial insecurity and lousy work?"