Yes, he was on target for the eighteenth century. Yes, he would single out these evils in today's society.
François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire was a French writer and philosopher featured during the Enlightenment. One of his famous phrases was
- "Our work preserves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty"
This phrase coincides with the context of the 18th century because during that time the Industrial Revolution was expanding throughout the European continent and work was one of the main themes of philosophical thought.
In addition, this sentence is still valid today because the socio-economic and labor system that exists today is still based on the capitalist democratic and economic system that began in the 18th century.
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