Thought for the day

From The Road To Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek, 1944, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1994, The University of Chicago Press.

. . . who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?

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