Rural Ownership Beats Urban Poverty

Updated: 2025.09.23 29D ago 2 sources
Thailand’s poor are often rural smallholders who own their land, contrasting with Western urban 'ghetto' poverty where renters lack assets. Asset‑holding in rural settings may buffer hardship differently than cash‑poor, rent‑burdened urban poverty. — It pushes anti‑poverty and housing policy to consider asset structure and urban form, not just income transfers.

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The world needs peasants
Maryam Aslany 2025.09.23 60% relevant
Like the Thailand case that reframes poverty through rural asset‑holding, this piece argues small family farms remain dominant across Africa, Latin America, and Asia and should be supported rather than displaced, positioning rural smallholders as a viable base for welfare and resilience.
David Van Ofwegen: a peripatetic philosopher across Eurasia's antipodes
Razib Khan 2025.07.09 100% relevant
Ofwegen contrasts Western deprived ghettos with Thai rural peasants who own property.
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