Involuntary Material Poverty-                         Material/Financial Exploitation

This is a Hinge Wound and leads directly to the remaining wounds.

Poverty here can be seen as lack of money, lack of possessions and lack of those attributes and personal traits that allow one to be accorded the positive roles due to any human being.

Even those devalued people with considerable financial resources can find their access to these is limited by legal or illegal actions.

The fact that Involuntary Material Poverty is a wound does not imply that money or possessions in themselves are an absolute benefit.  What is important is that people (and especially devalued people) should have access to adequate finance, possessions and attributes to allow them to experience the valued world as it is experienced by valued people.

The loss of money, possessions and attributes leads to other wounds:

Involuntary Material Poverty as a Hinge Wound

Involuntary Material Poverty leads directly to four other wounds:

Impoverishment of Experience

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