Lydia Hällefors and Naomi Klein

They have nothing in common. Lydia Hällefors wrote about rural Finland in 19th century, Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, author and film maker.
After the 1860s famine in Finland Lydia visited her former home and noted that "once the famine was over, the poor had disappeared, which seemed to surprise, even greatly shock, the better-off villagers".
Naomi Klein discusses what she calls disaster capitalism in her book "The Shock Doctrine". She gives examples of how disasters are treated as exiting market opportunities, and how the vulnerable are left even worse off than before dispite some aid efforts after the catastrophies.
The world was not better before, but nor is it better now.