"Poverty is a problem exacerbated by industrialization, and it's not going away anytime soon. Contributions to our understanding of the problem serve a cautionary function. A hundred years ago, addressing a gathering of rich New Yorkers, Jack London said, "You have been entrusted with the world; you have muddled and mismanaged it ... and it shall be taken from you. Who will take it from you? We will! ... And we want all you have!""