Talk:Indigence

"It referred to the inability of a poor person to support themselves for example through illness or a disability or a lack of work. There was a clear differenciation between poverty which was essential in order to make people work and indigence which was considered unacceptable." Wait, what? They can't support themselves because they're injured/sick... Poverty makes people work... but it's not acceptable to be too sick to work... Could we get that cleaned up/clarified? Cantras 20:29, 30 November 2006 (UTC)


 * For the record, the clarification would have been saying "it referred to poverty due to the inability of a poor person to support themselves", and explaining that 'unacceptable' meant society should not allow it. For more on 18th/19th Century understanding of the word, see  or . Open4D (talk) 23:30, 4 October 2008 (UTC)