{"id":12956,"date":"2011-11-23T16:32:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=12956"},"modified":"2011-11-23T16:32:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:32:32","slug":"illth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/23\/illth\/","title":{"rendered":"Illth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Hislop referred to the 'illth' during his programme on banking last night.<\/p>\n<p>It's a great word.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/illth\" target=\"_blank\">Websters it means<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><strong>:<\/strong> the condition of being economically unprosperous or miserable\u00a0&lt;the glaring disparity between the state's natural wealth and its human\u00a0<em>illth<\/em> \u2013\u00a0<em>Christian Century<\/em>&gt;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>or<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>:<\/strong> something that produces or is symptomatic of illth\u00a0&lt;much of the goods on our shelves is wealth rather than\u00a0<em>illth<\/em> \u2013<em>Nation<\/em>&gt;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>John Ruskin <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illth\" target=\"_blank\">first used it, as the opposite for wealth<\/a>. But he didn't mean poverty: he meant the\u00a0materialism\u00a0that consumes the owner: the ill being of material accumulation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It works.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Hislop referred to the &#8216;illth&#8217; during his programme on banking last night. It&#8217;s a great word. According to Websters it means: : the condition<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/23\/illth\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}