Capitalists are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. - Bertrand RussellFound on a forum on Dan Carlin.com
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My favourite today is :-
"The purpose of life: to hydrogenate carbon dioxide"
Which quote, incidentally, contains just 42 letters ;-)
Ol' Bertrand was occasionally kinda flip and shallow for such an otherwise bright man, don't you think?
A capitalist, by definition, is one who exchanges in voluntary commerce for a profit. I don't know if you've noticed, but slaves make remarkably poor customers.
Here's one in return: "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." by the noted philosopher P.J. O'Rourke.
Bert's comment is a little flip, but I think there is more than a grain of truth to it. I suspect luck has more to do with success in business than hard work, whereas the loudest bellowers in the business class claim it is all due to hard work. I am not even gonna touch the legislative business, it's just too yucky.
Hydrogenate carbon dioxide? That would get you what? Carbohydrates? That would be what plants do. Animals do what? De-hydrogenate carbon dioxide? Would that make them anti-life, like anti-matter? And what if 42 isn't the answer?
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