Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple
9.5 out of 10A collection of articles written by a physician/psychiatrist who spent decades working in impoverished nations in Africa, Latin America and the Pacific as well as in British slums and prisons. He argues that despite access to food, water, warmth, health care and entertainment, it is the Western lower class that faces the threat of becoming a lower caste. A Weltanschauung--perpetuated (and partially originated) by academics, media and officialdom--is shared by millions destined to make the same mistakes.