"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."

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