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  • Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

    "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.