There is however centuries of evidence («evidence based», laws, etc. take your pick) proving and demonstrating that without a floor to wages there is greater immiseration of the working population. (slaw.ca)
The genius of our own time and place is to deflect attention, say from the oligarchic President Snow and his politics of immiseration in Panem, and turn it back onto the immiserated. (sensesofcinema.com)
Better to embrace the Anthropocene's potential as a revolution in the way the Earth system works, they argue, than to try to retreat onto a low - impact path that runs the risk of global immiseration. (economist.com)