How the Other Half Lives

[Mjannie]

Hi dear INTJ's

I am wondering if any of you had a chance to read the book How the Other Hald Lives, by Jacob Riis. It is written in 1890. The book describes in detail daily life of immigrants to New York City in the late 1800s was shocking while other people lived in fabulous housing. If you red this book, please give your opinion? I'm reading and it's very sad, how people would survive for that condition.
Thanks

[Ool]

I think I read it on the internet.

Of course in those days squalid conditions incentivized many poor people to eventually move west and to try their luck elsewhere in the big, as of yet sparsely populated country. That’s the upside of the Robber Baron age.

If social inequalities happen today, however, there is nowhere left to move that isn’t populated already. Getting a little house on the prairy is quite different from getting a house in the suburbs. One meant independence and freedom. The other means even more dependence on supply lines these days than in the urban centers…