Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
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The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.John Galbraith
these are the days when men... seek the comfortable and the accepted when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence when originality is taken to be a mark of instability and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland.
John Galbraith
It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.
John Galbraith
Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion
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There must be, most of all, an effective safety net of individual and family support for those who live on the lower edges of the system.
John Galbraith
Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.
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