Hint: It would include no one advocating a greater role for government in the life of the poor. Those types may be well-intentioned, but the goal of eliminating poverty is fundamentally at odds with the need to establish constituencies — i.e. folks to be ‘saved.’ To date, tobacco is the only industry which knowingly attempts to kill off their clientele.
A recent NYT article highlights the efforts of Chandra Bhan Prasad, a former Maoist revolutionary who was born into a Hindu caste system in India, and his advice to his fellow untouchables:
Get rid of your cattle, because the care of animals demands children’s labor. Invest in your children’s education instead of in jewelry or land. Cities are good for Dalit outcastes like us, and so is India’s new capitalism.
Gary Becker gives us the economic rationale which explains why Prasad’s belief — that competitive and open markets is the…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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