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“Nor during the Age of Innovation have the poor gotten poorer, as people are always saying. On the contrary, the poor have been the chief beneficiaries of modern capitalism. It is an irrefutable historical finding, obscured by the logical truth that the profits from innovation go in the first act mostly to the bourgeois rich.”
― Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
― Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
“The change in rhetoric has constituted a revolution in how people view themselves and how they view the middle class, the Bourgeois Revaluation. People have become tolerant of markets and innovation.”
― Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
― Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
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Tom’s 2024 Year in Books
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