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I heard the most wonderful piece on CBC last night about homelessness -- propertylessness, exclusion.
Down and Out in Riverdale kittenpie 2008
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Third and last: the distinction clearly implied Pius in later paragraphs between comfort and propertylessness proves the point: for he is arguing both that the lot of workers has been somehow improved and that they do not own property.
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Hence the specter of joblessness and propertylessness in the electric age.
Boing Boing Mark Frauenfelder 2011
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Note the explicit reference to the propertylessness and “proletarian” status of wage-earners, propertylessnes that must refer to their non-ownership of productive property, and not their lack of the basic means of sustenance i.e., property for consumption, which the Pope concedes elsewhere had been in certain areas mitigated and partially remedied since Leo XIII’s day.
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