The stuff of nightmare is their plain bread. They butter it with pain. They set their clocks by deathwatch beetles, and thrive the centuries. They were the men with the leather-ribbon whips who sweated up the Pyramids seasoning it with other people's salt and other people's cracked hearts. They coursed Europe on the White Horses of the Plague. They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale. Some must have been lazing clowns, foot props for emperors, princes, and epileptic popes. Then out on the road, Gypsies in time, their populations grew as the world grew, spread, and there was more delicious variety of pain to thrive on. The train put wheels under them and here they run down the log road out of the Gothic and baroque; look at their wagons and coaches, the carving like medieval shrines, all of it stuff once drawn by horses, mules, or, maybe, men.
Well first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesn__ run on greed? You think Russia doesn__ run on greed? You think China doesn__ run on greed? What is greed? Of course, none of us are greedy, it__ only the other fellow who__ greedy. The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn__ construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn__ revolutionize the automobile industry that way. In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty you__e talking about, the only cases in recorded history, are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade. If you want to know where the masses are worse off, worst off, it__ exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that. So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear, that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by the free-enterprise system.
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Well first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesn__ run on greed? You think Russia doesn__ run on greed? You think China doesn__ run on greed? What is greed? Of course, none of us are greedy, it__ only the other fellow who__ greedy. The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn__ construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn__ revolutionize the automobile industry that way. In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty you__e talking about, the only cases in recorded history, are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade. If you want to know where the masses are worse off, worst off, it__ exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that. So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear, that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by the free-enterprise system.
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