“The reward of production is plenty, not private fortune. We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the # of millionaires but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of public schools & the # of people who can & do read worthwhile books.” - W.E.B. Du Bois 1953

March 16, 2025 - 14:07 UTC

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That is the exact opposite of what the dictator and his crew are aiming for, and will get if the people let them.
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“Civilization is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens” - some smart person somewhere.
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Absolutely right!
Very well put.
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Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1776: "The liberal reward of labour ... is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the labouring poor ... is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition that they are going fast backwards."
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