"The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off."
Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish sociologist and philosopher known for his analyses of modernity and postmodernity, including the concept of liquid modernity. He was a longtime professor at the University of Leeds.