
“No, wealth isn’t created at the top. It is merely devoured there.”
Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 16 (p. 217)
“No, wealth isn’t created at the top. It is merely devoured there.”
Yam Gruel (1916), in Rashomon and Other Stories https://books.google.it/books?id=DYHQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT29 (Tuttle, 2011).
Source: The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves. (2009), p. 10
“Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.”
Anything That's Peaceful (1964)
Context: Socialism depends upon and presupposes material achievements which socialism itself can never create. Socialism is operative only in wealth situations brought about by motes of production other than its own. Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.