If one person loots a store and gets away with thousands of stolen dollars, we call it theft; but if a lot of people wearing pinstripe suits loot the public treasury and get away with billions of stolen dollars, we call it economics. Strange psychological sleight of hand.

Nov 24, 2020 · 4:29 PM UTC

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Too TRUE!
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Equally applicable in the UK under the current chumocracy
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It's a disfunction that's been with us for millennia.
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They say that patriotism is the last refuge To which a scoundrel clings Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king Bob Dylan
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If a looter steals from a store and gives it to a guy driving by in a Lamborghini, the looter is still the one who stole from the store. The government is the looter in your example, and rightfully so.
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Keynes called it the moral philosophy. My Economics professor resented it when I asked why.👍
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I know right?!! I voted against Biden too!!
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