“So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. The reaction must come. The tower leans from its foundations, and every new story but hastens the final catastrophe. To educate men who must be condemned to poverty, is but to make them restive; to base on a state of most glaring social inequality political institutions under which men are theoretically equal, is to stand a pyramid on its apex.” — Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879)
That tower looks like it may fall
February 8th, 2012 · 2 Comments
Tags: Economics · Politics & Law
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1 Averil Dean // Feb 8, 2012 at 3:36 pm
And when it does fall . . . my babies, my babies.
2 Tetman Callis // Feb 8, 2012 at 5:26 pm
And the rest of us, too.
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