The increasing invisibility of poverty in Alistair Macleod's No Great Mischief based on the theories from The Rights Revolution

As Ignatieff states that "Abundance has awakened us to denials of self while blinding us to poverty. We idly suppose that the poor have disappeared. They haven't. They simply become invisible" (92). He further explains "Abundance changes the moral economy of a society by favouring values of consumption over saving" (91). It implies that abundance causes the side effects of poverty because societies of abundance don't care about the ability of living on poor. These kinds of …

…the pay from work unless they manifest themselves as poor by applying to the social assistance and health care services. In fact, they are living barely with their salaries and have to work longer hours; even their jobs may not be secure because of limiting of time of working by taken those working permits. The government should look into this matter carefully and establish social welfare in order to benefit those victims of invisible poverty.