I don't want to take a turn for the political in this blog, but I came across this and it's pretty gosh-darned good:
"A second danger to President ○○○’s valiant and heroic experiments
seems to arise from the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they
were noxious beasts. It is a very attractive sport, and once it gets
started quite a lot of people everywhere are found ready to join in the
chase. Moreover, the quarry is at once swift and crafty, and therefore
elusive. The pursuit is long and exciting, and everyone’s blood is
infected with its ardour. The question arises whether the general
well-being of the masses of the community will be advanced by an
excessive indulgence in this amusement. The millionaire or
multi-millionaire is a highly economic animal. He sucks up with
sponge-like efficiency money from all quarters. In this process, far
from depriving ordinary people of their earnings, he launches enterprise
and carries it through, raises values, and he expands that credit
without which on a vast scale no fuller economic life can be opened to
the millions. To hunt wealth is not to capture commonwealth."
If you're curious who wrote it, just put parts of it into Google or Yahoo.
And with that note, it's Saturday, I've already finished my planned jog before 8:00am and all that's left for the rest of the day is to bake a Potato Rosemary bread and drink absurd amounts of beer.
Cheers!
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