“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.”

Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

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American economist, social theorist, political philosopher … 1930

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