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We need to stop measuring the economy by how well rich people are doing.
Nov 7, 2020 at 11:12pmWeb
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ⭕​Nov 8, 2020

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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.

-- Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
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(A much-misrepresented book.)

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Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ⭕​Nov 8, 2020

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If some Nero or Domitian were to require a hundred persons to run a race for their lives, on condition that the fifty or twenty who came in hindmost should be put to death, it would not be any diminution of the injustice that the strongest or nimblest would, except through some untoward accident, be certain to escape. The misery and the crime would be that any were put to death at all. So in the economy of society; if there be any who suffer physical privation or moral degradation, whose bodily necessities are either not satisfied or satisfied in a manner which only brutish creatures can be content with, this, though not necessarily the crime of society, is pro tanto a failure of the social arrangements.

-- John Stuart Mill, Chapters on Socialism
https://archive.org/stream/chaptersonsocial00mill#page/264/mode/2up

Chapters on socialism