“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.'”
--Robert
Heinlein (as quoted often by Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit)
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