[OFB Cafe] THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: From Robert Heinlein:

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Donald Spoon wrote:
> THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: From Robert Heinlein:
> 
>    Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances
>    which permit this norm to be exceeded ? here and there, now and then
>    ? are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised,
>    often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking
>    people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as
>    sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip
>    back into abject poverty.
> 
>    This is known as ?bad luck.?
> 
It is also known as "Having Socialists attempting to run the economy"


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