“David Ricardo saw that the escalator worked with different effects on different classes, that some rode triumphantly to the top, while others were carried up a few steps and then kicked back down to the bottom.”

Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter IV, Parson Malthus and David Ricardo, p. 71

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