If I'm understanding the message here correctly, white male capitalists are greedy pigs and the future belongs to multicultural collectivists because... magic.
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
Yes, imagine this. Imagine Utopia. Don't imagine Venezuela, North Korea, or Cambodia. Because only intentions count, not actual results.
ReplyDelete“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
ReplyDeleteThis is known as “bad luck.”
Robert Heinlein