Social Ostracism & Invasion of Privacy: Pain of Poverty

"Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty" -- Alice Foote MacDougall

Money & Power Equal Freedom, Mobility & Privacy

"The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. " -- Joan Didion