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Workhouses Changed Charity | European History
🕑 Added 2024-12-12 18:30:01 +0000 UTCPoverty has always been a complex challenge, but our views on it have evolved dramatically over time. For centuries, poverty was seen as a fact of life, with charity considered a moral duty. However, the Early Modern period introduced ideas linking poverty to laziness, fueled by religious shifts like Calvinism and economic upheaval. Join us as we explore Victorian England and how the English Poor Laws were aimed to help the "deserving poor," only to be overwhelmed by industrialization and urbanization. Evolving these laws into the infamous 19th-century workhouse system—meant to aid the poor but often dehumanizing in practice.
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Martin Verran
Charity? How is sending poor people into a workhouse a 'Charity?' What good is any institution whose staff lack simple human compassion? Then again, what is humanity without compassion? I am quoting here, but what good is your money if you're poor in your heart? [This from someone whose ancestors were shut up in the Workhouse, by the way]
Hans Niemand
Good as always.
Ramien
Minor nitpick on word choice: Shouldn't the discussion on predestination be about God's Omniscience (knowing where everyone will end up ahead of time) rather than Omnipotence? It's a good video, but that particular word choice pings my brain wrong.
