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If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.
If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.
Approximate author period: c. 1940 AD · modern
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- Muhammad Yunus
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- Approximate author period: c. 1940 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Muhammad Yunus: documented birth year 1940; activity date not established. Wikidata Q43969, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43969 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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