When you're out of work and you can't afford other things, you goes without 'em, but the rent 'as to be paid whether you're workin' or not.' 'Yes, that's enough,' said Harlow impatiently; 'but you gets value for yer money: you can't expect to get a 'ouse for nothing.' 'Suppose we admits as it's wrong, just for the sake of argyment,' said Crass in a jeering tone.

'Wot then?
Wot about it?
'Ow's it agoin' to be altered.' 'Yes!' cried Harlow triumphantly.

'That's the bloody question! 'Ow's it goin' to be altered?
It can't be done!' There was a general murmur of satisfaction.

Nearly everyone seemed very pleased to think that the existing state of things could not possibly be altered.
'Whether it can be altered or not, whether it's right or wrong, landlordism is one of the causes of poverty,' Owen repeated.

'Poverty is not caused by men and women getting married; it's not caused by machinery; it's not caused by "over-production"; it's not caused by drink or laziness; and it's not caused by "over-population".