Impoverishment, Downsourcing and Buying Your Way Out

In this article I am laying out a term I have coined – ‘downsourcing’ – as a kind of impoverishment externalised by classes with sufficient finance to buy themselves out of trouble.  I will be trying to drill down to the fine detail some of the what’s, how’s and why’s of ‘poverty’ are recreated in day to day behaviours and actions in the UK today.  For such an affluent nation brimming with endless numbers of charities, for me, significant questions are not being asked and significant acknowledgments are being avoided. This is part of an extended project focusing on how impoverished circumstances are created and recreated. Read more…