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Jean-Paul Sartre

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Alone

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Sartre is saying that some people share poverty as a common condition with others, creating a collective experience of being truly poor. In contrast, those who are poor by themselves are seen as individuals who normally have wealth but are temporarily unlucky.

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